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 learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.
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I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.
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I think it's because we're not purists, we're open to all kinds of music. We're not afraid to take chances and we work really hard, and we gig relentlessly, we've been very active in the studio, we're active with the record labels that we have. So I think it's like a full-on assault. We've stalled in many different directions and it kept us in the limelight for so many years.
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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?
