Hector Elizondo Quotes
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
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We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.
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In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago...
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me.
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Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.
