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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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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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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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I was a closet Journey fan when I was growing up.
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I used to get these horrible feelings; like, I just wanted to rip my body apart, and I don't want to have to go through that experience again. It's really, really awful.
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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.
