Alfred Molina Quotes
Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.
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My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.
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Though each trainer believes his or her method is best, I don't think it matters which method the pet owner adopts so long as that owner finds a capable mentor and sticks with the training. Eventually you will learn to see your dog, and when that happens, the richness of your and your dog's lives will tell you what to do next.
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Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
