Quotes by Jason Gann - Page 1

I'm fascinated in the children within adults.
Jason Gann / Actor
Adults
Children
Fascinated
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I've always been fairly confident in my acting.
Jason Gann / Actor
Fairly
Confident
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So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.
Jason Gann / Actor
Pet
Crazy
Hollywood
Burn
Pets
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The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.
Jason Gann / Actor
Interesting
Really Interesting
Rooms
Interesting Place
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I came to America so that I could work with the best and be the best.
Jason Gann / Actor
America
Being The Best
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It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it.
Jason Gann / Actor
Actors
Thinking
Writing
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I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.
Jason Gann / Actor
Drama
Thinking
Vices
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I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.
Jason Gann / Actor
Pet
Couple
Determined
Media
Spotlight
Pets
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I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.
Jason Gann / Actor
Comedy
Dramatic
Thinking
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I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.
Jason Gann / Actor
Different
Narrative
Want
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I often don't like seeing how different things are made. I'm not a big fan of behind the scenes stuff.
Jason Gann / Actor
Behind The Scenes
Different
Fans
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I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.
Jason Gann / Actor
Careers
Roles
Years
Hamlet
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I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.
Jason Gann / Actor
Actors
Cigarette
Smoking
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Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.
Jason Gann / Actor
Acting
Creative
Want
Me Acting More
Producer
Secondary
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Sometimes girls would come in and audition and they'd talk down, and it was like, "No, no, talk to the human eye level."
Jason Gann / Actor
Girl
Eye
Levels
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I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.
Jason Gann / Actor
Film And Television
Industry
Wanted
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I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.
Jason Gann / Actor
Actors
Imagine
Not Interested
Numbers
See I Can Something
Fare
Standard
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Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.
Jason Gann / Actor
Kids
Dog
Responsibility
Dogs
Nanny
Send
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British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.
Jason Gann / Actor
Australian
British
Different
Inspiration
Years
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I've had some offers from furries - people that want to have sex with dudes in furry suits. I've had some interesting requests. There's some great fans.
Jason Gann / Actor
Interesting
People
Sex
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I've been insane for a long time. An ex-girlfriend of mine once asked, "Is it true that all comedians are depressed?," and I said, "Every one I know is."
Jason Gann / Actor
Comedian
Girlfriend
Long
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The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.
Jason Gann / Actor
Jobs
Men
Character
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Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.
Jason Gann / Actor
Sister
Australia
Brother
Cat
Sick
Successful
Animals
Cats
Brother And Sister
Foster
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I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.
Jason Gann / Actor
Actors
Lucky
Shows
Escape
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The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.
Jason Gann / Actor
Dog
Honesty
Real
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I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.
Jason Gann / Actor
Cry
Drama
Reviews
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My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.
Jason Gann / Actor
Dad
Army
Funny Guy
New Friends
School
Schools
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I'm much more a writer than an actor. Although I have a great respect for that and I enjoy acting still, it really is about the world that I'm creating. That's where my future is.
Jason Gann / Actor
Acting
Actors
Creating
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There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.
Jason Gann / Actor
Australia
Guidelines
Maps
Real
Writing
Whereas
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You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.
Jason Gann / Actor
Long
People
Roots
Love Long People
Root
To Love
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To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
Jason Gann / Actor
Long
Majority
Medicine
Something New
Sugar
Thinking
Funny Always Long
Argue
Helps
Minds
Underneath
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I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.
Jason Gann / Actor
Australia
Great Ones
Hollywood Films
Scripts
Work Out
Work Great Done
No Work
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The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.
Jason Gann / Actor
Character
Stories
Years
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The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.'
Jason Gann / Actor
Cerebral
Involved
Myself World More
Escape
Last Few Years
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It's always difficult when you want to do something really new, and you also want it to reach the masses, because the majority of people want to see what they've already seen before, or that they're already familiar with. To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult.
Jason Gann / Actor
Majority
Mind
People
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