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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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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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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It's a terrible poison, writing.
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It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing.
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I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
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People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.
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If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.
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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.
