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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Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services.
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I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.
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I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.
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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
