Hector Elizondo Quotes
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.
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Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
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I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.
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You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.
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With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.
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I tend to be on the quiet side. I think I would have been bigger if I had a big mouth.
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I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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Senegal needs a renaissance.
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What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That's what I feel I do.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.
