Alexis Denisof Quotes
By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can't do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can - you find the money, you've just got to work harder for it.
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...it's just another one of those things I don't understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity
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Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a shit bloody pulp with a high-heeled shoe stuffed up his mouth, sort of the pig with the apple; it would be good to put him on a serving plate but you'd need good silver.
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Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
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By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
