Richard Schiff Quotes
I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.
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I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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I am very highly appreciated in my country, and everybody seems to love me.
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Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.
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It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.
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There are a lot of very simple recipes in the book, and there's a huge amount of material to help people understand how things work.
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To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.
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I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.
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I went to public school up until junior high.
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As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.
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Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.
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Once you get a little crack you’ve got your foothold. You understand the story and can morph the rest of it out of that.
