Joe Mantello Quotes
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an intellectual comedy-drama. It was just really smart TV.
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I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.
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We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world.
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You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.
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Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another. We ask movie directors why they chose to use certain lights and angles and speeds of film, but most of the time, we ignore the craft of a writer.
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I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.
