William Sanderson Quotes

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

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• Mark Twain cannot be defined.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Mark
  • Mark Twain
  • Twain

• 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

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• Men of patriarchal cultures have been committing heinous acts in the name of their God ever since they created a god for themselves. It seems that the earlier, goddess-oriented, nature-centered religions were far less cruel.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • God
  • Men
  • Nature

• 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

• 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

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette

• If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Up
  • Society

• If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Makeup
  • Saws

• If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Chance
  • Jump
  • Role

• It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.

  

  Lonnie Donegan
  • Feeling
  • Situation
  • Catalyst

• My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Friends
  • Animal
  • Affinity

• I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Looks
  • Ego

• There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Night
  • Period

• I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Brand
  • Davey Havok
  • AFI-liner

• I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Dream

• I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Wanted

• Unfortunately, the headlights of the car were bright enough for them to see Mae's outfit quite clearly. "Oh my God," said Nick, and shut his eyes. Jamie gave a small, nervous laugh. "What?" Mae demanded. "Alan told us that we were supposed to dress as we truly are!" "And you felt that what you truly are is a Christmas tree with too much tinsel." Nick grinned. "Huh.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Car
  • Eye
  • Enough

• As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?

  

  Arthur Frank Burns
  • Life
  • World
  • Mind

• My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Acting
  • Actors
  • Selfish

• You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

  

  Richard Madden
  • Men
  • Knows

• I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

  

  William Sanderson
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