Katharine Cornell Quotes
I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I have a great office.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
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I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.
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Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.
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As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.
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Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
