Brian Fallon Quotes
I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
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If you're a good person, that's all that really matters.
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When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey Weinstein going to want to buy?' Or even, 'What are filmgoers going to want.' I try to think, tell a good story. Just do what you do.
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No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
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What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.
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I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.
