Charles Coburn Quotes
If it would sell tickets, I'd stand on my head in the middle of Times Square at noon.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
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When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
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I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
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My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
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I have always liked a challenge.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.
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Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
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When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.
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If it would sell tickets, I'd stand on my head in the middle of Times Square at noon.
