Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
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I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
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I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
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Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
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Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
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If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.
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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
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I thought, 'If I go to uni, I can read and watch people and take many different subjects - take philosophy modules - and have time to travel in the summers,' which I did. I thought, 'I hope this will make me a better actor,' and it did.
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Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.
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Life without a snail was hard to contemplate.
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Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
