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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More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.
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The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.
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Man was not made for himself alone.
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Distant or near, in joy or in sorrow, each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.
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We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
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My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
