Rachel Roberts Quotes
It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.
