Evan Esar Quotes
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.
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Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
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We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
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Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
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I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
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I'd say to myself: "This is my dream, this is my wish." Because a wish is more than a wish. It is a goal. It is something your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.
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Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.
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An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.
