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I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.
Matthew Macfadyen

End, Different, Play

Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
Carla Gugino

Women, Movies, Become

If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
Victor Garber

I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.
Stephen Daldry

Made, Working, Reason

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.
Stephen Daldry

Made, Around, Talking

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.
Paul Giamatti

Acting, Playing

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
Anthony Weiner

Change, Work, Time

As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python'... that would just blow me away because it was just so silly and absurd, but so intelligent, and I loved that.
Reggie Watts

Away, Loved, Kid

Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.
Daryl Hannah

Pretty, Parties, Oscar

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.
Michael Shannon

Pick, Genre, Roles

It's almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one of these little bicycle horns in my pocket, and once in a while, when someone is sour-faced or stiff, I blow my horn. It sort of shatters the barriers. It's silly, but it works.
Elliott Erwitt

Someone, Once, While

Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.'
Eric Burdon

Rock, Moment, American

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.
Joan Cusack

Life, Great, Dad

I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.
Renny Harlin

Simple, Together, Different

I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.
Denis Johnson

Jesus, Son, Keep

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
Boris Becker

Hero, Place, Needs

It's a silly old game.
David Duval

I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.
Ashlee Simpson

Love, Nature, Fun

I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.
Naomi Judd

Women, Powerful, Care

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.
Neil Innes

Old, Song, Used

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.
Saffron Burrows

Life, Sometimes, Wonder

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.
Jane Asher

End, Acting, Another

The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
Vincent Bugliosi

Ruling, Case, Jones

So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.
Della Reese

Lost, Knew, Scared

I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
Bam Margera

Time, Money, Giving

Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you're laughing, kicking up your heels and doing silly things. You don't even realize it. And then there's other times where they're two feet away from your face and it's invasive and it feels threatening, so you don't want to be smiling.
Dianna Agron

Two, Sometimes, Away

Melanie Fiona is a singer, a songwriter, she's a super-girl. I can be silly, goofy, really chilled. She's like your cool chill girlfriend, sister-friend. I'm just like everybody else.
Melanie Fiona

Cool, Else, Girlfriend

The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical.
Roman Coppola

Experience, Travel, School

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.
Seth Green

Work, Nice, Saying

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
John von Neumann

Technology, Pretty, Possible

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