Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Quotes
I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.
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I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.
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I go to see my kids in school plays, ... I watched Lorna in a concert at the Westminster College of Music the other day and it was amazing. I felt very proud and surprised. I don't know why I was surprised, because I've known her for 17 years, but I've never seen her do anything like that in front of an audience. It's brave, it's uplifting.
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I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'
