Powers Boothe Quotes
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When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.
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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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The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it.
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We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.
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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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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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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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I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.
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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 like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.
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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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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'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?
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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've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.
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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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Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.