Billy Campbell Quotes
I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.
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Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them.
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Most salespeople would like to think of themselves as being rock stars, but they don't display the talent to match their definition.
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Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. There is no creativity, there's none of that.
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I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
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I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.
