Michael Socha Quotes
I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
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Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
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I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.
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People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
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Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
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There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.
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I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
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There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
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The true wealth of a nation consists not in the stored- up gold but in the intellectual and physical strength of its people.
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There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.
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You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.
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I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.
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On a good day, I usually tweet 50 to 100 times.
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I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.
