William Petersen Quotes
Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.
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I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
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Netflix, I love you.
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Don't forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
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Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.
