George Chakiris Quotes
I don't regret 'West Side Story' one bit. It was an incredible movie full of young people with amazing rapport.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski -
I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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'Mixtape' sounds retro! I used to make lots of mixed tapes. It was one of those '90s things - every girl gave them to her best friend. I remember exchanging a few with a boy on a bus when I was 14. I thought he hated me, but in hindsight, maybe he was in love with me, because he gave me the best music.
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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.
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I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?
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After a certain point it grows to implied as well as articulated threats, and people succumb. My wife did, and she was institutionalized.
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I try to make things more interesting. I want to inject a little bit of excitement. I try to do the show for the sake of the show itself, not to make money. Fashion isn't always about making money.
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I don't regret 'West Side Story' one bit. It was an incredible movie full of young people with amazing rapport.
