George Chakiris Quotes
I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.
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If we get to a world of digital securities, then there isn't a need for DTC and Cede & Co. anymore. It's a really huge step in returning to clean capital markets.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.
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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.
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If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
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I wanted already to be a filmmaker after I saw 'La Dolce Vita.'
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I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.
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The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.
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If you connect with an artist because of what they make as a body of work, you feel like they're your friend. You feel like you're on the journey of connection with them because they see the world the same way you do. That's so powerful, and if you use that, you can genuinely change minds.
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!
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Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
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Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.
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I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'
