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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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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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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We have a beautiful little boy who is 18 months old and another little boy to be born in October. We are very excited about that.
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Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
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Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers. I didn't like to slap backs or other parts of the anatomy. I liked hecklers, because they brought my speeches alive. I liked supporters, because they looked happy. And I really enjoyed mingling with people, if there wasn't too much of it.
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As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.
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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.
