Charles James Quotes
So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I hyper-analyze everything; I'm always in my head. Those moments where you don't think and you're just part of the environment did not come easily to me, but it was those moments and highs that I chased.
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If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
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One funny thing I realized is how many people had no idea that I was gay because they don't bother to look it up or ask.
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So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another.
