Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
