Xander Berkeley Quotes
It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
