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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I have a great office.
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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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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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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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I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.
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I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.
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Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.
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I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.
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I certainly had my God-can-you-just-take-me-now-I've-just-had-it-I'm-checking-out-let-me-off-the-train-I'm-done kind of thing. But, you know, I would never actually do it. I just can't imagine what it would take to do that.
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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.
