Harold Pinter Quotes
Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
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I was very happy. I thought I would cut my way through life.. ..victory after victory, laughing.. Well, I adjusted as soon as they carried me into my mother. Half of my victories fell to the ground.. she pauses ..My mother had victories. her candid, weather-beaten face darkens abruptly
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There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.
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I like to be prepared enough to be completely unprepared. I don't know if I make sense, but I have a fantasy of living someone else's life. And to do that perfectly, I need to prepare myself just as properly.
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Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
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When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
