Jessie Mueller Quotes
As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'
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There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
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...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.
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If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta.
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Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.
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As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.
