Everett McGill Quotes
I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
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When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
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I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get stuff signed. Most requested character? Probably Catwoman.
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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
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A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.
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I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.
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Being on stage a lot is quite physical.
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I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not.
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I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.
