Ted Danson Quotes
I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. We all have it; it's a great equalizer. White people come up to me and tell me that Roots has started them thinking about their own families and where they came from. I think the book has touched a strong, subliminal pulse.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
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I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.
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I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
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I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
