Michael Chiklis Quotes
I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
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I love actors.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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I never say never about a lot of things. Whatever you want, then more power to you. If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I'm considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are.
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I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.
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I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
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I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.
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If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.
