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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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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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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Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.
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I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
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I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don't really exist in cinema now. The only person who's really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who were either going down a river in a strange world or would be in this one land where people acted really strange, and he'd have these interactions with them that were strange - he'd usually get run out of town or something. Then he'd end up in the next town over where the rules were totally different. And I love this stuff.
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It's always fun when you don't have to trot your stuff out, especially as a young guy.
