Frank Vincent Quotes
As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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Chairman Mao was the first in the world to use Twitter. All his quotations are within 140 words.
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It's interesting because when you're in a show for a year, your life really isn't your own for that whole period.
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This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.
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Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?
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Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk.
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As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.
