Dennis Farina Quotes

#1. I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

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#2. I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

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#3. When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

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#4. When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.

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#5. So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

William J. Clinton

#6. I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

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#7. Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi

Deborah Harkness

#8. I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

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#9. I love England and the historical aspect of it.

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#10. would be two days traveling, at least, and then he'd be

Paula McLain

#11. When in doubt, just take the next small step

Paulo Coelho

#12. You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

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#13. The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

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#14. First, there will be no kidnapping. I know you're stronger and bigger and have magic and crap, but I'm drawing the line at kidnapping.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#15. Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

E.L. Doctorow

#16. Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.

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#17. I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

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#18. What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

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#19. There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

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#20. I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

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#21. Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.

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#22. I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.

Roger McGuinn

#23. Falling in love is like leaping from a cliff. Your brain screams that it's not a good idea and that hurt and pain will inevitably come to you. But your
heart believes you can soar, glide and fly.

Marie Coulson

#24. You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

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#25. Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

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#26. Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth. - Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!

William Shakespeare

#27. But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

Betsy Lerner

#28. As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

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#29. I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

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#30. This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.

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#31. Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

Zaha Hadid

#32. That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or France, or far-flung destinations. I just wanted to go back to my life from my childhood, just to visit it, and touch it, and to convince myself that yes, it had been real.

Jenny Lawson

#33. I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

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#34. I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

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#35. The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.

Ben Stein

#36. I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

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#37. I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

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#38. The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody.

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#39. This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.

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