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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I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.
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When it comes to the NFLPA, I don't have problem saying what's right, whether it upsets somebody or not.
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As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.
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I was studying theater management, business stuff. About that time, I realized I really didn't like that, and it threw me into a panic attack a little bit. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life.
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Everyone did an amazing job of planning this project.
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Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.