Vic Tayback Quotes
Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.
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I count 'Underworld 4' as my training period for 'Total Recall.' I do think it was hard because I didn't realize how tired I was. It is quite a lot to sustain that kind of physical work over nine months altogether and by the end of it, I definitely felt like I had aged quite a bit in that year.
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A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.