George Chakiris Quotes
You don't stop when a musical number comes up and do the number and then take up the scene where you left off. It all moves forward. Your work as an actor was part of your work as a dancer as well. It was dialogue through movement.
Quotes to Explore
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.
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You don't stop when a musical number comes up and do the number and then take up the scene where you left off. It all moves forward. Your work as an actor was part of your work as a dancer as well. It was dialogue through movement.
