Edward G. Robinson Quotes
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that's what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten.
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When work is what you love to do, it's not work - it's serving.
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I've been barefoot most of my life: either flip flops or barefoot on the pool deck. Although you'd think that would make me a good candidate for barefoot running, that doesn't work with me.
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I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
