Jamey Sheridan Quotes
'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,' if you will. The story dominates. You don't spend a lot of time with the psychological underpinnings of the police.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I bust raps like the boys bust gat shit.
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In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a 'whisper' is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife's ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.
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I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.
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To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
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I am not shy about my personal life.
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'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,' if you will. The story dominates. You don't spend a lot of time with the psychological underpinnings of the police.
