Don Ameche Quotes
I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.
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on genders of nouns: Why refer to Lady Crack Pipe or Good Sir Dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied?
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I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.
