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.
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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.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
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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.
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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
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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.
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
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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.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner
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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.
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -only those who have experienced it can understand it.
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I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: 'I should do this or that in case I don't make it.' I never had a back-up plan.
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I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
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We've known each other in Motorpsycho since 1985 or '86, are really different as personalities, and yet have actually never disagreed to any degree. We are really complimentary as musicians and songwriters too, and come from two total opposites in our approaches.
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I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.
