Beilby Porteus Quotes
One murder made a villain,Millions a hero. Princes were privilegedTo kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
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Women drive box office.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
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What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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The life of a business is not like a football team! We are not taking part in an Italy-France game or against Germany.
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I swear to God, that movie comes up more in my life than any other movie. Someone says 'Bowfinger' once every month or two to me. And how many years ago did that come out?
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The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?
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One murder made a villain,Millions a hero. Princes were privilegedTo kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
