Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
One late afternoon, Dante came over to my house and introduced himself to my parents. Who did stuff like that?
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.
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'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.
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'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.
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It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
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On Putin's order, Russian security services try to destabilize NATO allies the U.S. has sworn to defend.
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People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.
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I want to share music that we grew up with for this generation, the music my parents shared with me.
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being jaded and being closed-off.
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One late afternoon, Dante came over to my house and introduced himself to my parents. Who did stuff like that?
