Brian Dennehy Quotes

The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.

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• At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
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• I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

  

  Nate Lowman
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• I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!

  

  Carly Craig
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• A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

  

  Sam Worthington
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• I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

  

  K. Flay
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• Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.

  

  Iman
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• Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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• I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

  

  Olivia Culpo
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• You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.

  

  Madhur Mittal
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• I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

  

  Adolf Hitler
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• Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
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• When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.

  

  Nick Park
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  • Animation

• An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

  

  Marian Seldes
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  • Library

• The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.

  

  Brian Dennehy
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