Miguel Ferrer (Miguel José Ferrer) Quotes
I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.
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Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.
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If Iraq collapses in chaos and civil war, there will be a ferocious fight in this country over who misled us and who may have lied us, into war. Into the dock will go the neoconservatives whose class project this was.
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I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.
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Jocks have completely taken over music... And just to get back at them, I’m going to start playing basketball.
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I admire Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool - these are the teams that are always there fighting.
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In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.
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I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.
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I think I'm a big kid at heart, so I get very excited around the holidays.
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One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.
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I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.
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I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.
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The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
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I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.
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Neither as a writer nor, moreover, as a leader of a nation should you use terminology that obscures the reality of human evil.
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I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.
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As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.
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My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
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I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
