Scott Raab quotes
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“I think there's a core of real anger or misery inside every true stand-up comic.”
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“The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done.”
-- Scott RaabSource : "Chris Rock: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 18, 2011.
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“Somebody'll be me, tomorrow or whenever. I've been doing this awhile. My time's limited. I've been doing this awhile.”
-- Scott RaabSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“One of the best compliments I ever got was "You know what I like about you? You're smart enough to be scared. So many guys come on cocky, they don't want to go over their stuff, they don't want to do a pre-interview. You're always smart enough to be worried till the last minute."”
-- Scott RaabSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie Murphy, there were two schools of acting for a black actor: Either you played it LIKE THIS or youplayeditlahkdis. He was the first black guy in a movie to talk like I am talking right now. That did not exist for black actors before him.”
-- Scott RaabSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show.”
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“Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It's the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best.”
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“When you do something bad and you know you can do it, only you know you can do it. And do it while it's hot, man.”
-- Scott RaabSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together, you write a play and you act it out in 24 hours, literally. People pay and the money goes to charity. So I did one - I was horrible. I was bad. I was terrified. And I was like, "Oh, I gotta do this again." Because I know I can do it.”
-- Scott RaabSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“When you've got kids, it's a big undertaking. It's like doing four movies in a row.”
-- Scott RaabSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“Why would you go anyplace without your iPad? This is the greatest invention. When it gets a little more power, my God. It's like my office.”
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“A movie is a miracle, even if it turns out to be a disappointment.”
-- Scott RaabSource : "I'm grateful that I'm kind of a late bloomer, or someone who's still challenged by needing to work on things. I don't envy people who just don't have to kind of work on it". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 27, 2014.
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“Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants,”
-- Scott Raab
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