Edward Herrmann Quotes
Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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I'm just a worker.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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I wouldn't know the political solution to ending the conflict in those countries that refugees escape from. The only thing I know for sure, however, is that we need to help these people.
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I helped deliver one of my best friend's children. I just was so amazed by my friend, because she was not just a woman, she was not just a mother. At that moment she was creation; she was life; she was God. And as I looked in her eyes, BOOM! Her pussy exploded.
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There is not a single criterion which can serve as the measure of the non-existent, of the non-human.
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You sense when something is special, but you don't know how special it is until it's in front of an audience.
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Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.
