Basil Rathbone Quotes
Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
Quotes to Explore
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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 a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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I like to play by my own rules.
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It's a funny thing when you know someone and you meet their siblings - you get so much a sense of who they are because when you can recognize similar traits in the family, you understand exactly why they are the way they are.
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If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
