William Mapother Quotes
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.
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I almost feel like we do live in a world like 'Caprica.' The fact that it's so close to home is why it appeals to me so much. You're making statements about what's going on right now. You take Facebook and Wii and add it together, and that's what the virtual world in 'Caprica' is.
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At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
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I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
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Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.
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I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.
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If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.
