Felicity Huffman Quotes
Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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I remember Nessim once saying - that Alexandria was the great winepress of love;those who emerged from it were the sick men, the solitaries, the prophets-I mean all who have been deeply wounded in their sex.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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It's amazing to completely focus on something for four, five or six months, have it completely consume your life and be constantly thinking about somebody else's set of circumstances and how they would react to something. I find it fascinating. It's rewarding and on a professional and personal level.
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Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.
