Bear Grylls Quotes

I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

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• People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

  

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• I guess I crave stability.

  

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• I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

  

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• I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

  

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• It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

  

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• I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.

  

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• Actors make less than you think.

  

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• I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

  

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• I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

  

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• I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

  

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• I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'

  

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• So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

  

  Jackie Cooper
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• I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

  

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• I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

  

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• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

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• If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

  

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• I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

  

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• When I came to the U.S., I tried to take shortcuts to make money - but everything crashed.

  

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• The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
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• I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Live
  • Die