Ben Gillies Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
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If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
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It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.
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Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.
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Why do Republicans hate gay marriage so much? They certainly don't hate gay prostitutes.
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Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it's an important issue, but there's a reason that I don't talk about politics and why I'll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that.
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Daniel is definitely not gay!
