Laurie Metcalf Quotes
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.
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Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.
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I'm a little weird that way. I don't really know how to express my happiness.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.
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I want people to realize that they can dream big.
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I did every sport under the sun while growing up.
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The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.
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A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.
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I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera. Someone who does this wonderfully well is Lena Dunham.
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I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
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I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
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I just need to regain my command. I was concerned at first that I was not going to be able to go with the team and be healthy.
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Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know.
