Jeffrey Donovan Quotes
I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Capital will always go where it’s welcome and stay where it’s well treated. Capital is not just money. It’s also talent and ideas. They, too, will go where they’re welcome and stay where they are well treated.
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People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.
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No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.
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I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.
