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 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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The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
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I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.
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A lot of guys that had muscle pulls were guys that didn't play for a long time.
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Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.
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I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.
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I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.
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Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.
