Polly Berrien Berends Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
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I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
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Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve.
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What! alive, and so bold, O earth?
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Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
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Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.
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A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.
