Tom Skerritt Quotes
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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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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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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McCain likes strong defense, and he's viscerally suspicious of big companies. So he's more a Square Deal guy than a New Deal guy.
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If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements. We must occasionally follow visions and dreams.
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In the third grade a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that’s where I belonged.
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'Turn Me Loose' was Off-Broadway, and now we are making a concerted effort to figure out how to get it to on Broadway.
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Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.
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Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.
