Chris Heimerdinger Quotes
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
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We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.
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I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.
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We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast... It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number - before our doom comes.
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The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
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My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.
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Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.
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My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.
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There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
