Maximilian Schell Quotes
I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.
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I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
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The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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If I slip up and receive a good gift, I will not have given a good gift. This is probably a natural law that affects us all and needs a name. The Gift Reciprocal Law.
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When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
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The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.
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I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
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I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.
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Writing is a strange and solitary activity.
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Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
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An American credit card...is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.
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I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, but it just wasn't right.
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I mean, I couldn't ask for a better life, man.
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Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
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'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.
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Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.
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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
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Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor of pines, and the snow - soaked soil just warming into life.
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I would love to share screen space with Pawan Kalyan.
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I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.
