Everett McGill Quotes
I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
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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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You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
Nastassja Kinski -
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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Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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An actor wants to get up every day and they can't think of anything particularly more fun to do than getting into a made-up situation and living it out as if it's real.
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I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.
