Fisher Stevens Quotes
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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I don't feel closeted.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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I do think of this prize as the GFP prize, and I happen to fortunately be one of the people that goes along for the ride.
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Congress has no business telling courts within a state that they are prohibited from considering issues involving a lease for energy development, production, and exploration that has the potential to cause irreparable environmental and economic damage to the Gulf Coast area of that state.
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Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?
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I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.
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I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.
