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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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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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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I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.
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My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.'
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I was inspired to become an actor from theater I'd seen, so I assumed I'd do a lot of theater. But when I left Guidhall, the first thing I did was a short film - I played the main character. And I loved it. I love working on camera. I love the smallness of it and the detail and the routine of it.
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Working on '2001' was my film school. Stanley Kubrick was my mentor.
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I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'
