Uta Hagen Quotes
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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I want every Grammy.
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I'm an actor.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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No one knows what women want!
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God's love is just like the sun, constant and shining for us all. And just as the earth rotates around the sun, it is the natural order for us to move away for a season, and then to return closer, but always within the appropriate time.
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I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
