Campbell Scott Quotes
In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I like things simple.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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I'm not a particularly good liar.
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I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.
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I find it hard to imagine that anyone could be intimidated by me.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.
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In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
