Beetlejuice (Lester Green) Quotes
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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My life is a series of things that just happen.
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It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.
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In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.
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I am excited to be doing 'SVU' - I think there's a lot of inherent drama and a lot of inherent conflict in procedural shows. I have a lot of respect for police officers and the work that they do. There's a lot of nobility to depicting what these officers do on a day to day basis.
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I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.
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We need to think forward and keep making America greater. Not that old America, again.
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I'm trying my hand at directing. I'm doing an independent movie that we haven't started casting yet, but it's like an edgy version of 'Lethal Weapon' and '48 Hours,' only with two women in it.
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Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
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Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.
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A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years.
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For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.
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I been a cuppa Irish guys for 150 pounds.
