Kelsey Grammer Quotes
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I've got this great home life I want to keep living, and I don't want to neglect it.
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I don't really want to go into it, because whenever I say anything about my past now, it becomes a pissing match... but I realised that I had acquiesced, in my 40s, to an idea of 'You know what, maybe this thing that you wanted in your life, maybe it just wasn't important.'
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I'm someone who likes to try new things and take on new challenges. I love making movies, but TV is also great. I really enjoy doing both.
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Tolerance actually does exist on Broadway.
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'A Passage To India' by E. M. Forster - It opened my mind to a world I'd never known before.
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Frasier will always hold a special place in my heart. He's a great character I Ioved playing, and he's still a wonderful part of my life. But he was a lot of work!
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I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.
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I have always been a risk taker.
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I'm not sure sophisticated comedy has a place on television any more … I'd like to think it still does … But I'm not sure the networks are interested, I'm not sure anybody else is interested in sophisticated comedy any more.
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The first thing I did on television was a PBS thing where I played a priest. It was a Walt Whitman or Carl Sandburg story - I can't quite remember - but I was a turn-of-the-20th-century priest kind of guy. Never saw it; don't know if I was any good or not.
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I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.
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I know a lot of people who've lost their siblings and blame themselves.
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The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
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Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.
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I can't say it was challenging for me to shake the image of Frasier. I've been fortunate to have had a very interesting career since the series ended. I think the turning point for me was the show, 'Boss.'
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I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.
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'Frasier' works because we stay focused on the idea that - how he continues to grow. It is not that you are really - the mission is not to try to keep him fresh; the idea is if you naturally put a character in a situation that demands growth of him, then he will remain fresh.
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There are so many people that would be lined up to get their cut that even trying to finance a reboot of 'Frasier' would be nightmarish.
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As a Christian, we always fail because we can't become Christ. But I can try to at least emulate the best qualities, even if I may fall short.
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My favorite snack is caviar.
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In camp when I was eight - a bunch of kids threw me outside naked. I got 'em back!
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Life is supposed to get tough.
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You have to know you are in a comedy. You have to know that you are actually allowing the audience to participate on some level. When you go dark and mean it, then you don't let them in.
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I miss her in my bones. I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her - I could not... It very nearly destroyed me.