Ian McLeod Quotes
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
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Fear goes where it is invited.
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Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it.
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Wine is good, but water is preferable at table.
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That's my house and that's my car. That's my dog in my backyard. There's the window to the room. Where she lays her pretty headI planted that tree out by the fence. Not long after we moved in. That's my kids and that's my wife. Who's that man, runnin' my life?
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Most people keep their brains between their legs
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The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.
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I think 'Miracle's Boys' made more people aware of my work.
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My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
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The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work.
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During the war one accepted indifferent after-dinner coffee as a necessity, but when, after the war, one sought to find the coffee remembered of days gone by, one found disappointment. I was looking for the rich after-dinner coffee that literally curdled cream if anyone was foolish enough to spoil it with cream.
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I have got a reputation to protect.
