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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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right...The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
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I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.
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Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.
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Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.
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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.
