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.
Garry Kasparov -
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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To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I lived in an apartment near Wrigley Field.
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I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.
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I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.
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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.
