Sylvia Sidney Quotes
I’m a terrible flop as Sylvia Sidney. Give me a role to play and I’ll do anything. I’ll assume a brand new personality.
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By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.
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I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
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I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.
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There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.
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It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.
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I was a bouncer when I was in DePaul in Chicago at the theater school. I threw drunks out of bars - unless I had a play running that weekend. But I only had two actual fights. Some were like out of old Westerns.
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I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it.
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I’m a terrible flop as Sylvia Sidney. Give me a role to play and I’ll do anything. I’ll assume a brand new personality.
