Everett McGill Quotes
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
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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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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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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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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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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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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
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As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.
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What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.
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I do not believe in God, yet I believe in Picasso.
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If you lost a major actor because of a broken jaw, the project collapses.
