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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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 say to those opposite: we intend to prevail in this battle of ideas, on the ground, right through to the next election. We intend to prevail.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night!
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L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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I do think 'Dr. Ken,' at its heart, is about a great doctor who's a bit burned out. But even when I was a burned-out doctor, I was still happy and had a life outside of work.
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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.
