Ralph Richardson Quotes
Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.
Quotes to Explore
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for.
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I usually cast myself in things because acting is how I best relate to artistic impulses. It's what I've wanted to do since I was a child, so a scene usually plays itself out in my head with me performing it. And if I cast myself that's one less person I have to pay, one less person I have to explain my vision to, one less person I have to worry about.
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We need to stay on the leading edge of technology, that technology in our products, in our internal process and manufacturing. But most importantly, we need the talent. It's multidisciplinary talent. It's talent that knows how to operate globally, that has technology savvy and a business savvy.
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But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.
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Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress.
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Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.
