Quotes by Eugene Levy - Page 1

I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Comic
Guy
Jokes
Stand-Up Comic
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I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Fancy
Regimen
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I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Believe
Hips
Thinking
Dude
Hip
Wherewithal
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I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Comedy
Guy
Real
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At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Numbers
End Of The Day Day End
Correct
End Of The Day
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I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Slap
Butt
Jackson
Sam
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At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Goofy
Keys
Laughing
People
Love End Of The Day Day
Love Day People
End Of The Day
Laugh
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I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to act together.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Dumb
Enjoyed
Improvisation
Together
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I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Comedy
Cutting
Vicious
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I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Actors
Character
Comedian
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American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as 'Like Mike' and 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins
Eugene Levy / Actor
New York
Pie
Twins
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I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Family
Men
Character
Common
Common Man
Family Love
Lifestyle
Polite
Love Man I Am
Rules
Love Family Man
Around
Try
Bring
Characters
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I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Laughing
Thinking
Underdog
Life Love Time
Laughs
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I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Comedy
Hopkins
Sides
Would Be
Anthony Hopkins
Dragged
Sir
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I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Character
Reality
Trying
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This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Me Fun Way
Broader
Cartoonish
Edge
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The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Folk Music
Musician
Chris
Folk
Greatest Thing
Same Level
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But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?
Eugene Levy / Actor
Danger
Dice
Night
Rolling
Sea
Thinking
Dive
Implies
Packed
Parachute
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We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Couple
Funny Things
Little Bit
Littles
Added
Became
Seemed
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In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smart, they're really good, they've got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.' But I didn't like the part.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Good Sense
Guidance
Minutes
Smart
Ten
Love Good Thinking
Ten Minutes
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One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Character
Comedian
Comic
Laughing
Done Me Will
Me Laugh Comedy
Misconceptions
Stand Up
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Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Cities
Hockey
Wings
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I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school. I'd rather do three bad films that pay well than do one good film every three years that doesn't pay well. ... To me, if you can get a steady check in this business, you're doing okay.
Eugene Levy / Actor
Kids
School
Years
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