Mark Strickson Quotes
As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate.
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You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone.
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Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens us. All we need to do is stop pounding on the door that just closed, turn around-which puts the door behind us-and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls. The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.
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I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.
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I don't really prepare for each role the same way.
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As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.
