Katharine Ross Quotes
I'd like to be able to be like a director, like Richard Brooks, say. And be able to say, 'I did my best, and this is it, and there's nobody to blame but me.'
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?
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If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
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I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
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My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.
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Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
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The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.
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If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.
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I love to play gigs.
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If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're giving them a paycheck, I'm not sure you have the most productive workplace there.
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When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
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The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.
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I don't do quagmires.
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About his legacy: I'll be all right so long as it has been written on some corner of a human heart. On the heart, it doesn't matter how you spell it.
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Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.
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Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.
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I'd like to be able to be like a director, like Richard Brooks, say. And be able to say, 'I did my best, and this is it, and there's nobody to blame but me.'
