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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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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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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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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The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
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They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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I entered music at a poppy level.
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Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.
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I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.
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We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted by God in the Constitution. I mean, I'm discriminated against all the time. I don't care. It doesn't bother me. [I'm discriminated against] because I'm old. I'm too old to get a job as a game show host. They say, well, the guy's 71 and in five years he'll be 76. And I'm a one per center, and I'm absolutely discriminated against as a one per center.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.
