Gavin MacLeod Quotes
This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.
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Golf and dating don't mix.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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Look at the teams we played when I was not there - Indy, Minnesota, Green Bay, Philadelphia - that's four playoff teams right there. I don't think it's a significant statistic. We just have to play better when I'm not in there or play easier teams.
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The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
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I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.
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When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.
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Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
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This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.
