Brian Dennehy Quotes
In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that's a different story. I can do things in the theater that I can't do anyplace else.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again.
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For so many of my characters, they were political in their own countries and they risked their lives for certain political beliefs that they had, only to be brought to America where they're not treated like Americans - they're just not really treated like anything.
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Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11.
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If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.
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In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that's a different story. I can do things in the theater that I can't do anyplace else.
