A Quote by Billy Crystal
It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.
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Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.
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I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow?
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