Gene Hackman Quotes
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
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Criminality is a basic part of human nature.
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My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.
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Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it's just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I've done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she's 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.
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Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
