Jack Palance Quotes
Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
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If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached to any particular life plan - and always remain open to the idea that there might be an even better life plan for you.
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Personally, I don't wear fur.
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When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.
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It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.
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I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
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'When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass-a good one!-there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left,' he told me.
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I've never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to be a famous person or anything like that, and I think my fans know that as well.
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Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.
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It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.
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I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.
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Whatever we make the most of is our God.
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If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.
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I never used the press for anything except my charity.
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Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?
