John Frankenheimer Quotes
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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I'm a big road trip guy. I'm the guy who gets in the RV and drives across country. And when you do that, you really get to see small-town America.
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I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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Power is the ability not to have to please.
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Wembley is a ground with great history. It's hosted games and players of great prestige. It's always important playing on great stages like this.
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So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.
