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.Vic Tayback
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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.
Sam Houston -
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.
Umberto Eco -
Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
Rafael Correa -
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
Jack Benny -
The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
Fabiola Gianotti -
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.
Wallace Shawn
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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.
Randa Haines -
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.
Aaron Sorkin -
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.
Damien Hirst -
Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle -
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.
Ted Danson
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
Aaron Swartz -
I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
Gale Sayers -
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.
Zainab Salbi -
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.
Larry Brown -
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
Irwin Shaw -
When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
Wallace Shawn
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One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…
Wallace Stevens -
I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.
Edward Burns -
I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.
Kevin Spacey -
I've tapdanced since I was 11 years old. I always wanted to be a tapdancer, and that's all I ever wanted to be.
Mitch Hewer -
It's unexpected, but it's good to know our hard work paid off.
Bob Moore -
Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
Vic Tayback