Chris Doubek Quotes

Jack Lemmon always said you can't learn how to act without doing theatre, and I agree with that. Because anyone can do a character for a take, but can you do one for 40 minutes at a time?

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• The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

  

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• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

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• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

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• Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

  

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• I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

  

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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

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• Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.

  

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• Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

  

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• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

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• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

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• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

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• The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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• Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

  

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• It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.

  

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• When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

  

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• I like game shows.

  

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• Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

  

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• What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming.

  

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• In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.

  

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• Brutality creates respect.

  

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• Jack Lemmon always said you can't learn how to act without doing theatre, and I agree with that. Because anyone can do a character for a take, but can you do one for 40 minutes at a time?

  

  Chris Doubek
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  • Theatre