Warren Beatty Quotes
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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I have to live up to the love I am receiving.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
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I'm always eager to work with people I admire, people who have experience, who've made mistakes and made great things. That's the greatest teaching I could ever get in developing my own career.
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I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
