David Prowse Quotes
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I would like to see America some day.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't think it was ever a possibility.
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It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.
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It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.
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The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.
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Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.
