Mark Hamill Quotes
I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character actors do have a lot more fun, and there's a versatility involved that's challenging and fun, to come up to speed and do what's required of you.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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I had to learn to trust people, and I realized that success was going to be born in hiring really bright people - very self-motivated, very able to make good judgment calls day in and day out.
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I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?
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In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.
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I'm never gonna get it, but I always wanted a tattoo that says: 'This is my tattoo.'
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I love photo shoots where I can be like a pinup, not myself. Where I can be feminine, glamorous, dark not like in real life. I hate it when you go in and they want you to be 'natural,' to be yourself. I just hate it. I love having fun. When they ask you to smile, I hate it. Of course I smile in my real life, but to do it on cue, that's not spontaneous. I'd rather do something that's like a little movie, like a little story, rather than just me, I feel naked.
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I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character actors do have a lot more fun, and there's a versatility involved that's challenging and fun, to come up to speed and do what's required of you.
