Peter Cullen Quotes
I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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 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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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.
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Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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It's almost impossible to have a constructive conversation about health-care reform in Arkansas without passions rising and folks taking sides.
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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.
