- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Said Quotes
Words spoken, decisions made.
This collection centers on moments of speaking up — reciting the rosary as part of a faith practice, warning lawmakers about foreign policy risk before Congress, and casting a vote that came with real consequences at the United Nations. For more on personal conviction, see our Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Forgotten
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- Nov 07, 2020
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
- Harold
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
- Acting Classes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020