Marcello Mastroianni Quotes
Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.
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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
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A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
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I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.
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Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
