Israel Horovitz Quotes
It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I want to win football games.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
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Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing. You get to explore these creative parts of yourself as a child that most people don't explore until they're in college.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
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The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
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There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
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You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?'
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It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
