Dan Castellaneta Quotes
I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
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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 have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
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I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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When someone gives 60 days' notice, they're able to play an active role in identifying and training their replacement.
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When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?
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Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.
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I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
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The fairest garden in her looks,And in her mind the wisest books.
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
