Vincent Schiavelli Quotes
To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
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Every man is his own hell.
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When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.
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I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.
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The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song.
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Acting really started for me because I was in a house full of adults. They never shielded their lives from me. They were adults going through this world doing what they had to do. I used to like to watch them and imitate them. They all have their own distinct personalities; even though they're family, we couldn't be more different people.
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It is hard for me to understand I am on television and people around the world watch me every week in a country I have never even been to.
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I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.
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I'm a fairy. I'd come and hear, "How was your day, honey?" And I'd be like, "I was a fairy. I don't know."
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When you wake up in the morning looking for the light, the light will come.
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As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.
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Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.
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Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.
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We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.
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I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eating, or what handbag is the best handbag - that's so cheap to me. But if others want to open up about their personal lives, that is their choice. It's not for me to judge.
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.
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The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.
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I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.
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To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.
