Sydney Pollack (Sydney Irwin Pollack) Quotes
I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
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I'm a very proud actor.
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I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.
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My dog Tucker likes to walk late at night because it is a good way to keep me awake. Apparently, the one time I took him for a stroll around midnight represented, to him, a commitment similar to marriage.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
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I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
