Peter Cullen Quotes
I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
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I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever.
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People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.
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One thing I've learned is that you have to be open-minded.
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I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.
