Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (Desi Arnaz) Quotes
An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.
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Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.
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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
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Even though it's hard to learn how to back your car out the driveway at first, once it becomes a habit, you can do it almost automatically and think about something else, like the meeting that you need to go to today or what's on the radio.
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Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".
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An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
