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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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don't really give a toss whether they're playing or not because they're getting paid anyway.
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Thus, Protestantism will always stand up for the advancement of all Germans as such, as long as matters of inner purity or national deepening as well as German freedom are involved, since all these things have a firm foundation in its own being; but it combats with the greatest hostility any attempt to rescue the nation from the embrace of its most mortal enemy, since its attitude toward the Jews just happens to be more or less dogmatically established.
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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.
