Peter Billingsley Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.
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A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
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I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.
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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
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A lot of people don't like child actors.
