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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What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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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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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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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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Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.
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Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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He's a hard-hat guy. He's extended his range on his jumper, which has helped his game tremendously.
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Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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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.
