- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in an era now where every episode is reviewed 80 different times on the Internet by periodicals you've never even heard of.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Cuckoo's Nest' was my first film, and I had wanted to do film for some time, but somehow I had not clicked. I would go in for interviews or readings, and I never had the sense that I was anywhere near what they were looking for.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was just very shy. I was never anxious to do talk shows, as I didn't know what to say. And I don't feel I have any inherent interest. But as I'm getting older, I feel I want to be able to share whatever I know if it means something to someone.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had told my agents that I didn't want to do television. I can't believe I had that gall, looking back on it. I would never condescend to do TV, and then 'Taxi' called up for a guest spot in the first season. And my common sense kind of took over, I guess.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never liked pep rallies. I found school spirit hard to deal with. I am much more oriented towards the individual.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020