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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There's more to life than physical and material.
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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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When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.
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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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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.
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Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.
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You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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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.
