David McCallum Quotes
I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I've never been a partier.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.
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Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.
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At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.
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We can't laugh quite as much on camera, but we sure do on the set.
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When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
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I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
