Michael Ironside Quotes
My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.
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A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
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We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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Europe has sent a clear and firm message to the world that ambitious climate action is needed now.
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To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game.
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Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
