Michael Clarke Duncan Quotes
I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy, and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!
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I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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I always wanted to do a Disney movie.
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I've never wanted to be the boss.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
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A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
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When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.
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Musically, I always wanted to experiment.
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I wanted to play baseball!
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
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For sentimental reasons, she wanted the front license plate and the steering wheel to make a clock with.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.
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Not even close, ... Once I can transfer my weight to my front leg and just do it with a lot of force, and I don't even think about it, the home runs will come.
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
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Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
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The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.
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With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
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Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it.
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I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy, and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!
