Tucker Max quotes - page 6

A lot of people think that since I'm drunk in my stories, I must be drunk 24 hours a day. What kind of stupid logic is that? It'd be like if you saw Michael Jordan at a restaurant and were like, "Why aren't you in your basketball uniform?" I leave out way more than I put in. (Tucker Max)
Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong. View quote
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Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their identity by their stance on what they are writing about. Criticism should never be about the critic, but thats what it has become, and that's why no one cares about them anymore. View quote
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It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth. View quote
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I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel. View quote
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You can't fill your emails with crap, at least not with my friends, because they're brutal. If something sucks, they'll tell you. View quote
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I'm not some movie star relying on a studio. I have my own fans and I earned them. View quote
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If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work. View quote
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Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why. View quote
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My favorite random email I got was from some guy who wrote: "Mr. Max, with the hope of a six year old on the night before Christmas asking about Santa, I ask the same question: Do you really exist? View quote
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You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie. (Tucker Max)
Before you're famous it's stuff that seems like it'd be really cool, but once you get it, you realize it's not bad, but it's kind of hollow and meaningless. View quote
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Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep. View quote
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Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend. View quote
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I hated being a lawyer and I wanted to like myself and like my job. View quote
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My buddies and I, we all went to law school together, and once we started working in different cities, we all did crazy stuff, and we'd write e-mails to each other about the stuff we would do. And my friends thought my e-mails were really funny and they said, "Dude, why don't you put this up on a Web site. You know people would love to read this." View quote
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I'm not even the coolest one of my friends. I'm just the guy who sat down and wrote everything down. Like I know plenty of people who do crazier stuff than I do. View quote
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I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was. View quote
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In training, there is no winning or losing. There is only learning. View quote
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Opinions are projections. View quote
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Fat girls aren't real people. (Tucker Max)
The result of my hard work is that I'm financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don't have to answer to anybody. View quote
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I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating. View quote
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I turned down $2 million for this script. There's absolutely no way that had I filmed the script through a major studio they would have done anything but fuck this movie up. They would have cut all the balls off the comedy, they would have put Seth Rogen and Dane Cook in it, they would have changed Tucker to make him fall in love, and all this stupid shit that would have driven me up a fucking wall. View quote
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You see, I have fucked an amputee and a set of twins. If you add in a midget, you are looking at a legendary trifecta. How many other people can say they have done that? Seriously, raise your hand if you even know someone who has done that. Yeah, some of you have fucked midgets. Some of you have fucked amputees. Some have even fucked a set of twins. But how many can honestly say you have done all three categories? I'm not going to say that I'm the only guy on earth who has done this, but I would bet you could fit all of us into a Prius. View quote
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