Dick Van Dyke Quotes
Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
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A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.
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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.
