Jason Priestley Quotes
As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you're worried about is your character and what you have to do, what your goals are in this scene and in this piece of material. Whereas, as the director, everything is your responsibility. I enjoy carrying the load like that and being the responsible party.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
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My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
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When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign.
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Even up here on Vancouver on the weekends, I go work out in a studio space.
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As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you're worried about is your character and what you have to do, what your goals are in this scene and in this piece of material. Whereas, as the director, everything is your responsibility. I enjoy carrying the load like that and being the responsible party.
