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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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 -
I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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Marital status is not going to affect one's prospects or fan following, for ultimately, talent will prevail. Take Aamir Khan or Shah Rukh Khan, for instance. Actors are mere dream sellers. They cannot become everyone's lover.
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We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.
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I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.
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We exchange our privacy for access, and we may be losing our sense of agency in the process.
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If you think of most murders as being between people who know each other, it's very easy to figure out who the killer is. But when you have a murder that appears random, where the person is not someone that's within the known radius of the victim, then it's much, much more difficult to solve.
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I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.
