Jason Priestley Quotes
Any time you get to do a David Mamet play, it's a great opportunity. His writing is such that I think it's a big challenge, but when you get it right, it's a great opportunity to play every night, really.
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I am a Buddhist.
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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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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.
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I don't think I would want to do an animated movie because I've already made so many hours of animation that what's the point? I'd want something new and weird to challenge me in a different way.
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Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.
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A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.
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Any time you get to do a David Mamet play, it's a great opportunity. His writing is such that I think it's a big challenge, but when you get it right, it's a great opportunity to play every night, really.
