Boris Karloff Quotes

Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.

Boris Karloff

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• I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

  

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• Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

  

  Wendell Phillips
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• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

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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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• Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.

  

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• Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

  

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• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

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• Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

  

  Carl Hagelin
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• I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

  

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• When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  

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• I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

  

  Edie Falco
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• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama
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• My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.

  

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• I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.

  

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• If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

  

  Ina Garten
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• It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

  

  Anthony Robbins
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• A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

  

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• You're always looking for something in life that's going to be a new challenge or something that's going to bring something different to ask of you. Hopefully I can just find projects, whatever they might be, that inspire me to do some good work.

  

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• Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.

  

  Boris Karloff
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  • Public