Arthur Lacey Quotes
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.
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If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.
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I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
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All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.
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Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
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The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.
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Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.
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Here is this mass of jelly - three pound mass of jelly - that you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space, it can contemplate the meaning of infinity, and it can contemplate itself contemplating the meaning of infinity.
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Music is how you feel.
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My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don't produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That's what parenting is: You're not there for yourself; you're there for your offspring and everyone else around you.
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The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
