Donald Pleasence Quotes
I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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I would like to see America some day.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.
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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
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I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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Pair up in threes.
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In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
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The biggest reason people don't do things is knowledge. Many people don't go to the gym because they don't know what the heck they're doing.
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He's a fantastic actor, Kelsey Grammer. You don't have that kind of career without having a talent, without having something to say and to give to an audience.
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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
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I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.
