Jeffrey Dean Morgan Quotes
I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.
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One of the things that I learned is that you never truly know yourself until you challenge yourself. It is when you are confronted with challenges that you see what you are really made of, what is important to you and what your true aspirations are...sometimes you think that you really know yourself, and then you find out that you really don't.
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I love each of my kids in unique ways and try to meet their different needs so they can thrive and be their personal best.
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Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.
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I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.
