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A wise guy Italian. And I was a cocky little guy - just nominated for best actor on Broadway.


Eddie Mekka

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ADAM SANDLER But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.
CHANNING TATUM Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.
CRISS JAMI Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning.
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SID CASH Our guys battled. Their guy was just a little better.
RON GARDENHIRE He was just real cocky out there. He acted like he was, you know, 'that guy,' like he was the man ou...
REKALIN SIMS It would happen, even if the guy were Italian. But the very fact that the guy is American is just in...
ANDREI MARKOVITS It was pretty clear that I was a funny guy, just as a guy.
CHEVY CHASE I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unb...
PABLO SCHREIBER Eddie is a very smart guy, but putting Kmart and Sears together is a tough hand.
WARREN BUFFETT After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broad...
DON RICKLES I feel like I'm a guy that can step up and make big plays. I can go out there and try to make a big ...
BRANDON CALEB He was a fast little guy and I would be the guy trying to jab him and knock him down.
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BRUCE ARENA John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.
GENE SISKEL He was asking for an autograph. That's all he was doing. He's a fan. He wasn't being a wise guy.
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CHRIS PINE If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. B...
JOHN MADDEN True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Te...
MAHESH BABU My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astair...
ANDY GARCIA I've been a Madden guy since I was little.
CALVIN JOHNSON I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved...
MICHAEL JORDAN I don't really like the word 'cocky' and it's been used a lot with myself, ... But I'm not cocky. I'...
JONNY GOMES I think, before 'Watchmen,' I was the guy from 'Grey's Anatomy' who's a pret...
JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to beco...
ADAM SANDLER I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against ...
JIM BROWN I was a little bit of a cocky kid.
BILL ACKMAN I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats...
KEVIN BACON I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type ...
ED O'NEILL By nature, I was a little guy with big legs - a stocky lad.
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ISAIAH MUSTAFA He's just a guy who came in and was a mature guy. He had his sights set on being the guy. And he has...
GREG SCHIANO Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
STEPHEN KING On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.
HILL HARPER I was just a start-and-stop guy. I could never really follow through on anything that I started.
CHUCK NORRIS [About the Oscars] Is the ultimate prize for any producer. It would have been a dream if Javier Bard...
ALEJANDRO AMENABAR I know I was the fifth guy coming up in that inning, ... But I put my batting gloves on knowing that...
ALBERT PUJOLS Carlos, on paper, and Carlos, the guy who was in jail, is known to be a cultivated guy, the guy who ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ For it to happen, it took a guy who was a little bit of a rebel. It also took somebody who wasn't af...
ROB EVANS I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kan...
DAVID CONE It was kind of a dirty play, I suppose. Downie is a big part of our team. He plays on the edge and I...
KYLE CHIPCHURA I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.
CHARLES GRODIN My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a ter...
JOHN LENNON I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.
NATE DIAZ My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE He was great. Just a goof ball. I mean that in the best sense of the word. He's just a fun [guy], bu...
RAY LIOTTA I don't see myself as a personality. I'm just another little guy.
WAYNE HUIZENGA I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another le...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. I'm really a big fan of HBO and Showtime shows, so I wouldn't mind being on an edgy show... ...
RANDY WAYNE I made a move on the guy and I was open. Dustin got hit when he threw it and the ball was a little s...
BRENT CELEK How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
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CHRIS CONNOLLY I had to soften him up because, for whatever reason, all the Rock Chicks had an alternate Hot Bunch ...
KRISTEN ASHLEY Here was this little guy, with stitches and all the trauma I put him through, doing this to me. It w...
DR. VITTORIO COLLETTI If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did se...
MAC DAVIS I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
RAY LIOTTA He was just such a funny guy.
ANTHONY ADAMS He was just a worn-out guy.
CASPAR WEINBERGER I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refine...
G. W. BAILEY He was definitely a guy who played with a soul and energy. Even when he was on offense, he was a big...
CHAD ELLIS I knew that the guy had touched it, and I think he knew that too. I don't know why he was doing that...
ERREK SUHR I really hope people go back and watch his movies, because he was such a fantastic actor, and he is ...
WINONA RYDER He's a tough little guy. He's only 175 pounds, but he's a tough guy.
BARRY ALVAREZ So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chan...
ARCHIE SHEPP When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy,...
ROBERT ENGLUND One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best.
LARRY HOLMES Here's a man who's making the accordeon look sexy. The winner of not 1, 2, 3, but 4 Tony Awards for ...
JON BON JOVI When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say abo...
ADAM SANDLER I remember watching Eddie Murphy's stand-up act when I was little, and just being mesmerized.
ROB RIGGLE No, I wasn't upset. I was just mad at the fact that I felt like Jamal should've been the guy that wa...
STEPHON MARBURY This little guy was so thirsty, he just drank and drank. He was so dehydrated and worn out from cryi...
JANET GERBER The guy was a prince. I couldn't have dreamed up a better guy.
JOANN SIMS Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad gu...
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BILL SISSON I don't think it's a stretch. I always knew Johnny was a good actor. But also, when you're looking f...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
JACKEE HARRY It was almost a 'their-guy-against-our-guy' for a while, and it was kind of a fun basketball game to...
KURT HEMPEN I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was qu...
SEAN BEAN I felt the game was on the line and I couldn't just let that guy score. I needed to make a big play.
AARON SIMPSON I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
DANIEL CORMIER For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ult...
NEAL MCDONOUGH I like myself still kind of being... because DJs used to be the background guy - the guy who was jus...
MARTIN GARRIX He's a cute little guy. I hope I can ruffle his feathers a little bit.
ADRIANO BELLI He's a cute little guy, ... I hope I can ruffle his feathers a little bit.
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DONNA ADAMONIS Welcome Coach Spurrier. He was always a little cocky.
STEVE SPURRIER I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they ca...
LEE CHILD It was a close pitch. (Thome) spit on it, it may have been a little low, but it's borderline. But st...
A.J. BURNETT I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best.
ART MODELL Mel Brooks KLIPH NESTEROFF He was just a likeable guy who was just a really good faculty member.
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EDDIE MARSAN I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East E...
EDDIE MARSAN In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare....
EDDIE MARSAN I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.
EDDIE MARSAN I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
EDDIE MARSAN As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming a...
EDDIE MARSAN I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 1...
EDDIE MARSAN If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then...
EDDIE MARSAN I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to b...
EDDIE MARSAN The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky...
EDDIE MARSAN There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard...
EDDIE MARSAN I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it'...
EDDIE MARSAN I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who coul...
EDDIE MARSAN Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I s...
EDDIE MARSAN The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
EDDIE MARSAN Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
EDDIE IZZARD I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
EDDIE IZZARD If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefu...
EDDIE IZZARD I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between ...
EDDIE IZZARD I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the botto...
EDDIE IZZARD Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
EDDIE IZZARD I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
EDDIE IZZARD I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everyt...
EDDIE IZZARD MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police w...
EDDIE IZZARD Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music writt...
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