Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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When the season ends, I like to take a little time off from the diet I follow when I'm playing.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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I am dying to do an action movie. I can do my own stunts; I can do this.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.
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One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt - the child who never had a home of her own, who lives in her grandmother's home and then goes to school and then gets married and lives in her mother-in-law's homes, and then in public housing (like the White House and the State House) - housing becomes for Eleanor Roosevelt the most important issue.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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No matter where you came from, you can be inspired.
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The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.