Don Scardino Quotes
We ask actors to come to work ready to open a vein, to be emotionally thin-skinned. If someone screams, 'What about my coffee?' it's not about the coffee; it's because they're working in an emotional state. It ain't easy being an actor.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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'Give them the old Trump bullshit,' he told the architect Der Scutt before a presentation of the Trump Tower design at a press conference in 1980. 'Tell them it is going to be a million square feet, sixty-eight stories.'
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Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
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I try to stay away from the craft services table on set! That's probably why I am able to still get work in this business: I stay away from junk food.
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Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, 'I quickly moved on to...the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really.' (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)
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I always carry a little jar of nuts around with me. I roast them beforehand with tamari and thyme to give them a deliciously rich flavour.
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We ask actors to come to work ready to open a vein, to be emotionally thin-skinned. If someone screams, 'What about my coffee?' it's not about the coffee; it's because they're working in an emotional state. It ain't easy being an actor.
