Lee Strasberg Quotes
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
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In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
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If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
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Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
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I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
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Jake, why are you sitting in the front? I thought you liked it in the rear.
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For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
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To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
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I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.
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What's in my pocket?You never knewYou didn't know me wellSo well, as I knew you
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We work to earn our leisure.
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I saw a Vacancy sign in a brownstone on Lexington Avenue, rang the bell, the door swung open, and there she was: a squat, middle-aged woman with a purple velvet bow perched on her raven-dyed hair and a look of delighted astonishment on her face. She was encased in a dress of iridescent taffeta; on her feet, over her stockings, she wore tan socks and over these—high heeled patent leather pumps.
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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
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The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
