John Phillips Quotes
It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.
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Nobody expected Darryl Glenn to win, and he's won every time.
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I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
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Mon triste coeur bave à la poupe.
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It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
