Fred Ward Quotes
As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
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The Actors Fund is a human services organization, so our focus has been on caring for the entire human as opposed to dealing with the disease.
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Civilization, it was once said, is a race between education and catastrophe - and we intend to win that race for education.
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I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
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I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
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I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it.
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As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.
