Powers Boothe Quotes
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I come prepared when I come to work. Not just knowing the lines, but I think I know something about what I do.
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There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers.
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We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.
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The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it.
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We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
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Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.
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I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.
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I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.
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We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that.
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Any of us can sort of say we would do any number of things to feed our children.
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I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.
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I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'
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I've got a family, and I love them, and I want them to have the best opportunities in the best country in the world, and I think we have to fight for it.
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The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.
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Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent.
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I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.
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Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.
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I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know?