Red Gerard (Redmond Gerard) Quotes
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I use loads of moisturising products and make sure I cleanse, tone and moisturise every day. It's just so important to always keep your skin moisturised.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
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I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.
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I feel like the more I work on different songs and the more I work on my voice constantly... I always feel better after I post a cover. Even if it's doing the little 15 second covers, I'm working on my craft, and it's really good for me, and I feel good after I do it.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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In 1951, at 20 years old, I first began to draw with closed eyes. My belief in the art produced up to then had been extinguished; I was in crisis, back at square one. I didn’t know how, what, what for, or why. I needed to do something totally new, something that had never been done before. Coming from Surrealism, I was interested in the ideology of psychic automatism. So I decided to close my eyes and discover something new, something subconscious.
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I try not to think too far into the future; I'm kind of a day-by-day kind of guy.
