Harry Morgan (Harry Bratsberg) Quotes
If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
-
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
-
The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
-
You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
-
I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
-
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
-
If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
-
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
-
I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
-
There are a thousand ways to play any role.
-
I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
-
I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
-
I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
-
I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
-
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
-
Two important features in the modern development of economics are the application of mathematics to abstract economic reasoning... and the attempt at placing economics on a numerical and experimental basis by an intensive study of economic statistics.
-
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
-
The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
-
Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
-
I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive anywhere.
-
WHILE I THINK the reasons for postmortems are compelling, I know that most people still resist them. So I want to share some techniques that can help managers get the most out of them. First of all, vary the way you conduct them. By definition, postmortems are supposed to be about lessons learned, so if you repeat the same format, you tend to uncover the same lessons, which isn’t much help to anyone.
-
The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.
-
Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.
-
If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.
