Scott Raab Quotes

• Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants.

  Scott Raab

  Organization, Consultants

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• When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war.

  Scott Raab

  Guerra, Hombres, Manos

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• For each show, we do maybe 15 versions before it goes on air. So I know every show microscopically.

  Scott Raab

  Air, Goes On, Shows

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• As a viewer I came of age during a time when cast members were prone to fistfights. So I may be carrying a little of that kind of image in my head.

  Scott Raab

  Age, May, Littles

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• Actors are the neediest people you're ever going to meet. And their relationship to real life, tenuous though it is because of all the wranglers, the money, everyone throwing everything at them every day of their lives -I think they're pretty much who they were before.

  Scott Raab

  Real, Real Life, Thinking

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• When you do something bad and you know you can do it, only you know you can do it. And do it while it's hot, man.

  Scott Raab

  Men, Hot, Knows

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• I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals.

  Scott Raab

  Summer, Memorial Day, Uncles

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• My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms.

  Scott Raab

  Tattoo, Dad, Guy

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• My mother never criticized any idea I had. She thought anybody could have anything. Even if I was in a poor family that worked at Ford Motor Company and lived in Dagenham. I could have told my mother that I wanted to work in pantomime. And she'd have said, "Great. I can help you."

  Scott Raab

  Mother, Ideas, Helping

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• I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand."

  Scott Raab

  Mom, Want, Tough

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• The first time I learned I could sell myself was when I convinced a wealthy American family to give me a job as a nanny. Childcare. Totally unqualified. But I learned to be ready for anything. And that I can adapt. That I can become the best diaper changer.

  Scott Raab

  Jobs, Giving, Nannies

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• The reason I have managed to get so many shows on television is because I've tried to be authentic. When you're gonna spend millions of dollars to see that come to life, they better believe it's a good idea, A. B, they better believe that the person who's telling the idea is gonna put themselves into this.

  Scott Raab

  Believe, Ideas, Dollars

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• ¿Creo que la ejecución funcionará? Les Moonves dijo sí a Survivor basándose en parte en mi programa Eco-Reto. Le gustó mi forma de filmar en exteriores. Fue el primer uso de helicópteros en un documental con las lentes giroestabilizadas. Y una cierta belleza de filmar, dejando que las gotas caigan de una hoja a un charco, permitiendo que una araña teja una tela. Tomarse el tiempo necesario para que eso suceda en lugar de mostrar una escena tras otra.

  Scott Raab

  Believe, Fall, Work Out

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• In the steel-and-glass society that we live in, the value system would be that the lawyer, with the Mercedes and the fine suit and the Ivy League education, was more valued than the minority without the education. But on the island, the rules are changed. It's the person who can make a fire or who can make friends. A kind human soul is valued.

  Scott Raab

  Fire, Islands, Glasses

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• When you've got kids, it's a big undertaking. It's like doing four movies in a row.

  Scott Raab

  Kids, Four, Bigs

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• The number-one show in America on Sundays will be Celebrity Apprentice. Monday nights, The Voice will be number one. Wednesday nights, Survivor will be number one. And Friday nights, Shark Tank will be number one. It just takes some time management for me to focus.

  Scott Raab

  Viernes, lunes y domingo

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• One of the wonderful things about Portlandia - and I'm not just blowing smoke, although I can blow smoke, but I'm not - is that there is an expansive feeling to each segment. It's not reductive. It doesn't seem like sketch comedy.

  Scott Raab

  Blow, Feelings, Comedy

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• In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men.

  Scott Raab

  Military, Winning, Men

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• Hice una cosa llamada 24 Hour Plays, una cosa que hacen todos los años en Broadway. Un grupo de dramaturgos y actores se reúnen, escriben una obra y la representan en 24 horas, literalmente. La gente paga y el dinero va a la caridad. Así que hice una - Yo era horrible. Yo era malo. Estaba aterrorizado. Y yo estaba como, "Oh, tengo que hacer esto de nuevo." Porque sé que puedo hacerlo.

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  Writing, Years, Play

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• Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It's the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best.

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  Pay, Firsts, Levels

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• I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show.

  Scott Raab

  Running, Two, Hbo

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• Una película de Murphy [Eddie Murphy] es como una comedia de Sidney Poitier: es tan intensamente bueno... Revolucionó la actuación. Es literalmente el Brando negro. Antes de Eddie Murphy, había dos escuelas de actuación para un actor negro: O actuabas ASÍ, o actuabas así. Fue el primer negro en una película que hablaba como yo estoy hablando ahora mismo. Eso no existía para los actores negros antes de él.

  Scott Raab

  School, Talking, Two

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• One of the best compliments I ever got was "You know what I like about you? You're smart enough to be scared. So many guys come on cocky, they don't want to go over their stuff, they don't want to do a pre-interview. You're always smart enough to be worried till the last minute."

  Scott Raab

  Smart, Cocky, Guy

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• Somebody'll be me, tomorrow or whenever. I've been doing this awhile. My time's limited. I've been doing this awhile.

  Scott Raab

  Tomorrow, My Time

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• The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done.

  Scott Raab

  Style, Done, Intense

  "Chris Rock: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 18, 2011.

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