Christine Baranski Quotes
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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Wild flowers grow where they will.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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With wrestling, you can't describe how that connection with an audience happens. I can't teach anybody how that happens. The bad things that have happened to me in WWE have made that connection stronger.
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People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.
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Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.
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When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.
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...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return... you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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I am not a chef. I can't claim that title. The difference is a cook doesn't have a degree. A chef has formal education. It has nothing to do with talent or actual preparation - one just can't claim the title if you don't have degree.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, Id get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didnt know everyone was laughing at me.
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Well, I don't like the UK. I haven't ever been a fan of the pound (sterling), and even though they are taking some steps in the right direction - more so than the US - in addressing some of their problems, I still think they're doing it much too slowly. So, I think that the pound will continue to lose value relative to some of these other currencies. I ultimately expect the pound to rise against the dollar, but that's not the best way to take advantage of dollar weakness.
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I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
