William Sadler Quotes
I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
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I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
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I'm like Jay Gatsby. I like to throw the party and then stand back, looking gorgeous. Stand back and watch it.
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I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.
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I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.
