Laurie Metcalf Quotes
I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.
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I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
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At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
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It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.
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Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
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I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.
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What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.
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I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.
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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
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We make interesting companies and real businesses. It's not social networks for cats.
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I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.
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The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment.
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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.
