Miguel Ferrer (Miguel José Ferrer) Quotes
It's always fun when you don't have to trot your stuff out, especially as a young guy.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
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So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
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When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.
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I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.
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When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.
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Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.
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I like stuff that sounds big and full and makes your head trip and your body react.
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It's always fun when you don't have to trot your stuff out, especially as a young guy.
