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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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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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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The first thing I ever noticed about Miss Lyon was her incredible laziness. Laziness was my own specialty, & I did not like this competition. Dear me, I was to find out, in the course of time, that in the matter of laziness I was a runaway train on a down grade & she a-standing still. At my very laziest I could hear myself whiz, when she was around.
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I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.
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There is not much money in web series as compared to what I make on TV. And that is a fact. So I would love to make money at a time when I am getting my price.
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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.
