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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Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
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My kids and I live like three fun-loving hermits. We're quite bohemian.
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I look after myself. I train and go to the gym.
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People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.
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There are some days I feel fat. I'm not convinced there's going to be a moment where every woman in the world wakes up and feels like a million dollars. So, what I want to do is give women the tools that will help when those moments come up. Sometimes it can be as easy as telling yourself that you are beautiful.
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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.
