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.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.
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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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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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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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If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished.
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If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
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'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.
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Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
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If you lost a major actor because of a broken jaw, the project collapses.
