Joel Grey Quotes
I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be an adult at the age of 8 or 9. I never did kid stuff, so to speak, so I was in many ways ostracized by the other kids. But I did get this other life, so it was a trade-off.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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This morning someone sent me a very funny photo of me holding their puppy. We have matching colour jackets.
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Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
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My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.
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Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.
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I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be an adult at the age of 8 or 9. I never did kid stuff, so to speak, so I was in many ways ostracized by the other kids. But I did get this other life, so it was a trade-off.
