Jared Harris Quotes
You always hope that people will fall in love with the characters you play, the way you do yourself.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
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Where did you learn your charm—the gulag?
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You always hope that people will fall in love with the characters you play, the way you do yourself.
