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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Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' is where I got the title 'Momentary Masters.'
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I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines and it felt right.
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Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am.
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It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
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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.
