Larry Wilcox Quotes
The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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More and more, acting involves a serious chunk of autobiography and often what we’re talking about is trauma. We long for these experiences in the theatre, for someone to be torn apart in front of us. We always have. Theatre’s at it’s best when it has that, but there are consequences to it.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
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The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
