Barry Took Quotes

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.

Barry Took

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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Edmund Burke
- May
- Risk
- Liberty
If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

Orison Swett Marden
- Different
- Long
- Man
My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'

Lance Henriksen
- Thinking
- Feeling
- Acting
I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!

Jack McBrayer
- Giving
- Worry
- Coffee
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Madeleine L'Engle
- Up
- Children
- Grow
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

Nathaniel Philbrick
- American
- Future
- Man