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Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

Patton Oswalt

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Patton Oswalt
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 27
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Portsmouth
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