Sidney Altman Quotes
We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
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I wish all men were like dogs.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
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But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
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As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work.
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I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.
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I thank the Lord for the night time.
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We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.
