Michael N. Castle Quotes
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
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People don't know much about what's going on on the ground in Iraq: what you see in the media is heavily censored.
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The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.
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Every clarification breeds new questions.
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Now I've literally become neighborhood watch. I call 911 on people. I'm the old man driving 25-miles-per-hour down Sunset.
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The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.
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Politics is not really my thing.
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The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm quite content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.
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I've had a fantastic career playing great parts. In many ways, the colour of my skin has been an asset because I've been asked to play certain roles as a result. I don't apologise for playing them anymore than Robert de Niro is sorry for playing American-Italians.
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From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
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But all of this success came at the end of a long climb.
