Michael Cerveris Quotes
My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
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Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
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The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.
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As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.
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I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
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What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there's something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved.
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Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.
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I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.
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I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.
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I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.
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I didn't want to go to school, because I wanted to be an artist, and they were never going to teach me art. None of my family had ever done that kind of stuff either.
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I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!
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My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.
