Samuel Beckett Quotes
My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.
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I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
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Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.
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He had forgotten that the most elemental instinct in human nature is not hate but love, the former inextricably linked to the latter.
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Growing up, my parents treated my brother and me with absolute equality.
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“From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.”
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.
