Ted Levine Quotes
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I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.
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The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.
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I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.
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I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.
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I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we've got the real thing.
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When you care about something, that's when you want to save it. I want to bring that to storytelling - to make saving the world sexy.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
