Joel Siegel Quotes
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
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About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
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I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.
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I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.
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A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
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My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.
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We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tradition and emotional factors are equally important. If this were not the case, Europe would today be a federated state, not a madhouse of nationalism.
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One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
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Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.
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Telling parents in New Jersey you want to act isn't exactly like telling them you want to be a doctor or a dentist. There are no guarantees. It's hard, but all the arts are. Can you imagine the pain of writer's block?
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The Moodies is a responsibility to deliver the goods every night onstage and to do it sincerely; otherwise, it doesn't work. You've got the three guys left in the Moodies that really want to do it onstage, so I think we're truer to the old records now than we ever were.
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Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.
