Sam Riley Quotes
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
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I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.
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I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
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For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer and the person who created it.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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I'd never planned on being a model.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
