Jason Priestley Quotes
Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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I love playing odd roles.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.
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Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.
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And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.
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The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
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You meet people in the business and wonder how compassionate they are.
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Liverpool will always be special for me: my daughter was born here.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.
