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.
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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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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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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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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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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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'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
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I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
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Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.
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A man is morally free when... he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.
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And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
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I feel like a princess with a knife. I've wanted to be an Iron Chef forever.
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Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.
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Well, on the American side, every new administration has to cut its teeth in a crisis, because before a crisis, you don't really know what your various subordinates are thinking under stress.
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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.
