Ted Levine Quotes
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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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.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business.
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A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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Technically, the Hurricane might have been able to win the Battle of Britain on its own. But for keeping up the spirits of the people on the ground while running rings round anything the Third Reich could throw at it? That was the job of the Spitfire, a symbol of British brilliance, a symbol of hope.
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As long as we can breathe, we can hope.
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About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.
