Dan Aykroyd Quotes
I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.
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Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
