William Petersen Quotes

I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.

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• You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • You
  • Judge
  • Them

• It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • American
  • Funny
  • English

• Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

  

  La Monte Young
  • People
  • You
  • Education

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
  • Class

• If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• I like to work.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Work
  • Like

• Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Television
  • Industry
  • Sphere

• When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Sea
  • River

• There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Death

• Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as in this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • God
  • Dark
  • Smoking

• After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Up

• Our only hope for tomorrow is peace now.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Hope
  • Peace

• My whole thing is there is nobody else like you in this whole world.

  

  Katy Mixon
  • World

• My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.

  

  David Allee
  • World
  • Work
  • Fear

• I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Different
  • Power

• Yes, for blacks, racism functions without the actual presence of whites, just as for whites it functions without the actual presence of blacks! Beliefs, conventions, history do the work.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Work
  • History
  • Racism

• Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Health insurance
  • Health reform

• Happiness is about what happens to you; and, to an extent, it's dependent on your circumstances, your behaviors, and your attitudes. But the joy of Christ is much, much bigger. The joy of Christ is about relationship with a person. It's something you have access to, but it's also something you must choose. Christian joy shows up not only in the happy times but also in times of trial and discouragement.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Relationship

• All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

  

  Adhir Kalyan
  • Inspiration
  • Actors
  • Characters

• in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Heart
  • May

• Everyone knows I'm just a big, good-natured slob.

  

  Bing Crosby
  • Knows
  • Bigs
  • Slob

• I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.

  

  William Petersen
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