Delbert L. Stapley Quotes
When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
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Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time.
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The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
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It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.
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There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
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When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.
