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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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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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
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I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.
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Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an ensemble.
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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
