Parker Stevenson Quotes
I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I really like performing for people.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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Love, and do what you like.
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There is nothin' like a dame.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
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I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.
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Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.
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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
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I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
