James Caan Quotes
A lot of young actors look up to me, and I wouldn't trade that for any money in the world. I don't want to lose their respect and be a hypocrite.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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Are you in my dream too?
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My father wasn't the best role model to me.
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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Style is something you either have or don't have.
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Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
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A lot of young actors look up to me, and I wouldn't trade that for any money in the world. I don't want to lose their respect and be a hypocrite.
