Eli Siegel Quotes
Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? - must every work of art have a simultaneous presence of oneness and manyness, unity and variety?
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.
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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
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Everyone feels embarrassed, but when you laugh it off, it's fine.
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A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to work together to change the community and change their lives.
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There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.
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Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? - must every work of art have a simultaneous presence of oneness and manyness, unity and variety?
