Michael O'Brien Quotes
Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long.
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Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.
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As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.
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I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.
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To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.
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I was never in the office [of Rolling Stone]. It was very different from Lampoon, where we spent a lot of time together socially, which is to say "drunk."
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Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.
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After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
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Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and
