Buck Henry (Henry Zuckerman) Quotes
We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'
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It's impossible to start making a weapon only when the war already started!
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I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.
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I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy.
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I've learned never to count Vin Diesel out. Just don't do that. And I guess it's because he is a very smart guy. Smarter than people give him credit for.
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We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.
