Timothy Bottoms Quotes
The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
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I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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Truth, like love, is never absolute.
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.
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The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.
