Joel McCrea Quotes
People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
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I just want to keep saturating the market and radio with as many hit records as I can.
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It's done, when it's done.
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People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.
