Pierre Salinger Quotes
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.
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I've made a lot of very small movies that may not have had a large initial audience. Then it shows up on cable.
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I had almost no education. I hardly went to school. I’d be away for weeks doing films, then I’d come back and have no idea what they were talking about. Of course the other kids loved it: ‘You may be a well-known star but you don’t know how to do algebra.’ It was a nightmare.
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There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
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Idealizing Daddy is grand when you're five; it's crippling when you're twenty-five or thirty-five. For if you still believe in Daddy's miracles, you may not believe that you can make your own dreams come true. Worse, you may not even be able to formulate them without his guidance.
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I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.
