Michael Beck Quotes
Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come up with your own.
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I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.
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There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.
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It is important to be still and listen and follow the Spirit.
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I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
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The real beauty - inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.
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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
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There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.
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Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
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“Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.
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The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.
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Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.
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English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
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Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.
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He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?
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Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come up with your own.
