Gary Sinise Quotes
I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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My father was a lawyer.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
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Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.
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Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an actor, and you try to contribute to the story. But I think it might sound a little pretentious for me to say I think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as a creative person.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I'm certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!' It's just a word. If you called it 'Fred' would it be better?
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
