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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'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.
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The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
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I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.
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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.
