Brian Dennehy Quotes
At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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I love the BlackBerry. I'm on it all the time. I literally wrote my whole book, 'Unwrap Your Sweet Life,' on the BlackBerry while I was working out on the StairMill. So many people tease me about having a BlackBerry, but I meet a lot of people who still use one. Obama has a BlackBerry!
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Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.
