Dallas Roberts Quotes
I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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I think we are all of the same opinion that "wherever you go, there you are," and if you are constantly searching for paradise outside of yourself, you will miss what is in your own backyard.
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I love acting with very little dialogue. As long as it's supported. I mean, in terms of cinema, you can have a great monologue, but if you're not supported by the images ... You can be feeling things and then you see it back, and you're like, "None of that came across." Or the angle of my face gives it a completely different interpretation than what I was trying to communicate.
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Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.
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On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.
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I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'
