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.
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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.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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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?
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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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.
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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.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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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.
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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.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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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.
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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.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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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.
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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.
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I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They've got to be one way or the other and go all the way.
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'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
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While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person, regardless, it's clear that some of my past actions have hurt or offended several women. And I probably deserve to be called a creep.
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Of course I remember everything I've ever worn.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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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.
