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(on if he feels he is typecast as a comic relief sidekick, and if it bothers him) No, I am. It`s a pleasure and a privilege. I really look at it as a career, and not what movies I`m doing this year. I remember not getting offered Dude, Where`s My Car? (2000) and going, "Wow, I`ve graduated from college." So it changes as you grow older just for obvious reasons. And to be typecast and make money and make people happy and people dig what you do, what a great thing, man. I don`t want to compete with Jude Law, nor should I. Could I act them? Sure. But do people want me to act them? Probably not, you know. As much as I would want to do it, you know what I mean? I think people fuck up there and they do what they want to do. And that`s fine, but remember, it`s all about telling a story, it`s all about entertaining people in one way or another. And some people are successful at it. I mean, Tom Hanks is great. There are examples of people who have gone both ways. If that opportunity comes, then it comes. Tom Hanks did wacky old Turner & Hooch (1989) comedies forever and then, eventually, when the time was right, he did it. And it wasn`t like he was doing it intentionally, it just kind of happened, because he became an older man and it worked. So maybe I`ll play the crazy sidekick throughout my whole life and that will be fine. Or maybe I`ll do sidekick parts and in five years it will be a different thing. I don`t know, maybe. I don`t have a plan, I just want to do the next good thing for me."

- Steve Zahn

When studios entrust big Hollywood blockbusters to strong, intelligent directors, like Steven Soderbergh or Sam Raimi (Spider-Mans 1 and 2) or Alfonso Cuarón (the latest Harry Potter), I say `God bless `em`, because those films will have legs and might stand the test of time. But if they rely on just product, like two examples from this year, Van Helsing (2004) and Catwoman (2004) - I`m glad they tanked.

- Alexander Payne

I`ve had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

- Andy Garcia

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

- Christy Turlington

Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It`s not why I started acting. I didn`t get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened - so I accept that it`s my life. But there are some things that I can do to make changes and grow up. I want to act like a woman rather than a teenager. I am doing the best I can. It was hard surrendering and having people tell me what to do. It was really humbling for me, but I liked how I was treated as a normal person. I kept the common areas clean. I liked making coffee for the gym the best. I`m planning a trip to Africa during the second week in December. I`m working with the American Red Cross, but it is not finalized yet. I just want to apologize to any of my fans that look up to me, especially my younger fans, for setting the examples that I didn`t mean to set. That is one of the reasons that I want to change things. I don`t want to be known as that person. I have a younger sister and she looks up to me, too. All the negative stuff that gets said hurts my feelings, it hurts my sister, Ali, and my family.

- Lindsay Lohan

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

- Charlton Heston

I really believe that people like Bill Murray or John Belushi are just as great and just as valid as Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. And I don`t think you can say One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest (1975) is a better movie than Animal House (1978); they`re different genres. I think they`re both examples of great craftsmanship.

- Sam Rockwell

Among today`s directors I`m of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese (Martin Scorsese), and Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola), even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh - they all have something to say, they`re passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process. Soderbergh`s Traffic (2000) is amazing. Another great couple of examples of the strength of American cinema is American Beauty (1999) and Magnolia (1999).

- Ingmar Bergman

I think we were among the first positive examples of country music for the punk rock audience,

- John Doe

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.

- Albert Finney

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

- André Breton

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don`t make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn`t death.

- Stevie Ray Vaughan

It is so important for parents to read in front of their child, so the child knows how much reading can teach them, ... I make sure I am reading books around my children to set good examples for reading throughout life.

- Tina Simpson

I love things that age well - things that don`t date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

- Giorgio Armani

Be prepared to give honest, specific examples of when you`ve used your skills at work. Showcase yourself.

- Paul Green

The sport is still growing and there`s only upside for female fighters. The examples of the LPGA, the women`s tennis tour and the WNBA indicate that the time is right for women in the sports world. Female boxers don`t have the benefit of a tie-in with the male sport like the tennis tour, which plays at the same major tournament venues as the men, and certainly not like the WNBA, which is directly subsidized by the NBA. But, there`s no question in my mind, this is the time for women in the ring.

- Jackie Kallen

Not only are they capable of learning the material, but they are capable of approaching the subject from a creative and more open-minded perspective. It allows them to study not just in isolation but look for contemporary examples and similarities.

- Michael Cook

Although this case is one of the more serious examples of its type, it is certainly not unique. Honest customers of the banks end up funding these fraudsters` gains.

- Robert Scott

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.

- John Searle

Of course anything can happen, and as we know there are a great many examples of the other way of doing it, but I myself don`t think I would enjoy it.

- Robert Fitzgerald

We`re pleased to extend our collaboration which combines our strengths in analyzing and understanding genetic variation associated with multiple common diseases with Merck`s extensive knowledge of the biology underlying neurodegenerative diseases and its global leadership in the development of innovative therapeutics. This target validation program is one example of the value we`re able to provide our therapeutic partners worldwide; other examples include identifying individuals who may benefit most from early therapeutic treatment and predict those individuals who will best respond to new therapies.

- Thomas White

The way he used examples of our actual lives and compared it to the scripture made it easier for me to understand.

- Jennifer Austin

There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness.

- Michio Kaku

I`ve tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we`ll win again, but I`ve also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

- Mike Krzyzewski

We are seen as one of the shining examples of base redevelopment,

- Daniel Stewart

I don`t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I`m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

- Vivienne Westwood

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

- Gerry Adams

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

- Abdul Sattar

If I was pinned down I`d say that was my greatest asset. I could speak to players and give them examples of injuries and how they heal.

- Al Zollar

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

- Alan Zinter

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

- Alane Fagin

Of all these examples, the simplest but the most profound is the fact that it takes at least two somethings to create a difference.

- Alex Ward

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that`s what I`d like to do and that`s what I hope to do.

- Alexander The Great

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

- Alison Parken

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

- Alissa Czisny

Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.

- Allison Gibney

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

- Alvin James

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

- Aly Byorick

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

- Amanda Silverman

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

- Amanda Silverman

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today`s world, even in its most liberal parts.

- Amit Shankardass

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

- Anatol Rapoport

Examples is more forcible than precept.

- Anatol Rapoport

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who`s seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they`re being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

- André Glucksmann

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

- Andre P. Brink

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

- Andrea Drake

IF we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

- Andrew McCormick

History is philosophy learned from examples

- Angela Munchel

He also has spent millions on children with AIDS, ... We can drown them with examples of where Mr. Jackson has been so benevolent, so generous, so charitable, so giving for good causes, that it will make their theory look silly.

- Ann Munzenmaier