John Michael Higgins Quotes
My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
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Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing 'cause anything can change in a script.
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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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The things that stand out are often the oddities.
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I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.
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I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
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My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.
