Antony Sher Quotes
I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.Antony Sher
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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The problems that you see startups tackling are dramatically different in different cities. Silicon Valley is unlikely to produce the same set of companies as New York or Cleveland because the region has a different set of strengths and defining institutions.
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When I try to be perfect, it makes me not have fun.
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The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?
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I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.
Antony Sher
