Brian Dennehy Quotes

My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

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• Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
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• To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • End
  • Mystery

• I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Strong
  • Always
  • Body

• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
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• I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Black
  • Gay
  • Jew

• If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Worst
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  • Too

• I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • Work
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  • High

• I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Want
  • Start

• My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Small
  • Goal
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• I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Yourself

• I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Work
  • Fashion

• The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Power
  • First
  • Contract

• I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Work
  • Free
  • Animal

• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Values

• We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • World
  • Women
  • Live

• The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.

  

  Martin Compston
  • Work
  • Great

• In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

  

  John Griffin Carlisle
  • Free

• Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Live
  • Want
  • Myself

• I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

  

  John Boyega
  • School
  • Training
  • Drama

• Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Children
  • Death

• My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

  

  Brian Dennehy
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  • Real