Clifton Collins, Jr. Quotes
Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'

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I am a Buddhist.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
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The bell. It was already time to part, to go to bed. The bell regulated everything. It gave me orders and I executed them blindly. I hated that bell. Whenever I happened to dream of a better world, I imagined a universe without a bell.
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You could argue people are generally better off now mentally than they were back then. We follow the natural cycles. We eat real food instead of processed crap full of chemicals. We're not jacked up on coffee and television and sexy advertising all the time. No more anxiety about credit card bills.
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I think our team kind of strives on weirdness sometimes. We have that 'rah-rah, rally' sort of American mentality that we can all kind of get around.
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Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'