Brad Garrett Quotes

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Brad Garrett

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 14, 1960

I don't think we're politically correct when we're private. I don't know what 'politically correct' means.

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I've always wanted to play a coach in a movie, just to be the captain of anything in the pirate ship of my bathtub.

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I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

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I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.

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There is the real person I am, and there is the stage persona.

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I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

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I love performing, and it's important that I do it at my own club, absolutely. It's good for me. It's good for business.

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There's not a day that goes by where I don't think, 'Oh, I'm a lucky pup.'

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It's fun to play people who are flawed.

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I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

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People who are bipolar, they kind of latch onto things that are fanatical sometimes.

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You can give a guy a funny line, but you can't make him say it funny.

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I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

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Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.

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But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.

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I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.

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I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.

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Sports were never my thing.

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The night I won the Emmy, I probably cried for three hours on and off.

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I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

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