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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Most proud moment: Winning the championship in 2003 with a great team, retiring, and going out in the perfect way. Had a great journey and knowing it was the right time to focus more on family and community activities.
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The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
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I know that I'm a natural attacking player. I love to attack. I love to play freely; I love to combine and play through balls. That's the nature of my game.
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What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?
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The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; not those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time and pray.
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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.
