John Frankenheimer Quotes
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
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Actors can't retire. What would they do?
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.
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I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
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Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.
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I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.
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It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts.
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If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.
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For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.
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No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.
