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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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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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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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
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It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But acting is incredibly rewarding, working and interacting with people to create funny moments. I can't imagine not doing acting or stand-up, I really enjoy both of them that much.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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I have no pity for myself either. So let it be veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
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Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by babbling brooks and shady woods - in short, a machine that will discriminately select its subject and, by means of a skillful arrangement of springs and screws, compose its motif, expose the plate, develop, print, and even mount and frame the result of its excursion, so that there will be nothing for us to do but to send it to the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition and gratefully to receive the 'Royal Medal'.
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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.
