Sid Caesar Quotes
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.
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I always have to be writing.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
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Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
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Horror movies can be - I don't wanna say not real, but so over-the-top: you can get scared 'cos things are loud and in-your-face, but these are real emotions that I'm using.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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When people ask me a personal question, I answer it in a personal way. I can only speak from the footsteps and the shoes that I've walked in.
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There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.
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General Motors spends more on health care than steel.
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My first few years in the league, I was relying on my athleticism to get me by, because that's what got me to the NBA. The problem with that is, you end up getting really, really tired by February.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do. There's something about creating life out of things that have no life.
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When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.
