Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
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When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.
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One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
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I was a pretty difficult teenager.
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A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.
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'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.
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I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.
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I pretty much move around wherever I like.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good.
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I think I could probably make $5 to $10m movies for a very long time and live a perfectly good life doing it. I'd probably get paid as well as a surgeon, which is pretty damn remarkable for a guy who went to film school.
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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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What 'Strong Island' does is bring a historical perspective and help people understand that what we're treating as a modern-day phenomenon is actually not modern. It's actually quite old.
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I've been pretty blessed. Sometimes it comes in disguise.
