Yancy Butler Quotes
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
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What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.
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I did Hilary Duff's 'With Love' music video-slash-fragrance ad.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
