Steven Berkoff (Leslie Steven Berkoff) Quotes
Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
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My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
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Jon Anik better get a motherfucking 209 tattoo or I'm whoop is little ass.
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I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.
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There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.
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In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case.
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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!
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Nothing connects with people like humanity. That doesn't mean you have to tell slice-of-life stories all the time. But you know, with so many options in technology, the consumer's not really that interested in advertising... They are interested in great stories. That transcends any medium.
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I would love to use the tools and technology to create a completely different reality with its own rules. And in doing so, create something that incorporates the ethical component more deeply into the experience.
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When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.
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Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.
