Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
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I'm not Cinderella.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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People drive everywhere in L.A., so you get very little human interaction... but N.Y. and Chicago are like London... L.A. lacks the social interaction.
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To be at the point in which I am playing characters that make such a difference to people and that really tell interesting and important stories, it took getting here to realize how important it is and how satisfying it is.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned.
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
