Basil Rathbone Quotes
Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
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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 think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.
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Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.
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She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?
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Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget thats actually not the point at the end of the day.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
