Cloris Leachman Quotes
So many (older) men and women are relegated to minor supporting roles, ... Christopher Walken. Look at him. He's a great actor and in a lot of films. But he's not starring in anything.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I've really only had one (dream) since I got into this business at 13 years old, which was to be in this business forever. Once I did my first television commercial, I caught that itch and that bug. I want to be a part of pieces of art - as far as cinema is concerned - that people will want to see for generations to come. That's my dream.
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I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.
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I never pretended to be a great actor.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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So many (older) men and women are relegated to minor supporting roles, ... Christopher Walken. Look at him. He's a great actor and in a lot of films. But he's not starring in anything.
