Tom Berenger Quotes
I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I love talking about myself.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.
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There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.
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The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.
