Antony Starr Quotes
Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they don't sing to you. I've got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, 'Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.'
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I loved experiencing city life in New York.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.
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The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
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If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair.
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I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.
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I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt.
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Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they don't sing to you. I've got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, 'Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.'
