Hamish Linklater Quotes
In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I grew up in New York.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.
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I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.
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Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.
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We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.
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In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
