Nicholas D'Agosto Quotes
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I haven't gotten a lot of feedback about, 'Oh, you helped me in this way.' But on social media, people are like, 'Thank you for your positive posts,' or 'It's fun to see you grow and your character. I feel like I'm growing with you.'
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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I've always considered myself a character actor.
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I'm proud that Della was sort of a prototype for TV secretaries. There really was no such established character on TV when 'Perry Mason' came along.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
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So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.
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It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
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The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
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I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.
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I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.
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Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.
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I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.
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Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal.
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Right after you have a baby, the focus is on the baby. You don't feel sexual; you don't feel attractive; and you have a bigger job.
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People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.
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A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth.
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I want to be doing smart, fun, complex characters like most actors want to do.
