Simon Mainwaring Quotes
Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, and there has to be a certain level of chemistry between the two characters.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.
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In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
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I don't see any change in fiscal policy.
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Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.
