Phil Daniels Quotes
Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
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I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
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At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
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Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.
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There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.
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I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.
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We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.
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Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.
