Anthony Perkins Quotes
Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was one of the many inconveniences of this paradox I lived with -the more people I was surrounded by, the more frighteningly alone I felt.
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You never know with a new show. It takes awhile for shows to find their feet and for people to connect with it. We just got lucky that people liked us, straight away.
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At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.
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Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
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Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.
