Frank Grillo Quotes

#1. A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.

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#2. I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

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#3. I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

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#4. Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

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#5. I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.

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#6. 'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'

Candace Bushnell

#7. You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

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#8. My favorite movie is 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' with Clint Eastwood, a guy who gets his family killed by the bad guys then goes on a journey of revenge, eventually discovering himself - very existential.

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#9. What I look for in a role is the physical. But what's the journey emotionally? Can I take this person who is this archetypal tough guy and find the beauty?

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#10. I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

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#11. By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.

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#12. The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

Andrea Dworkin

#13. Her blue eyes are full of tears, but she is smiling. Her expression is as bright as a newborn Christian.} one my favorite lines from Beyond Sandy Ridge.

Nancy B. Brewer

#14. I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

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#15. From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.

Bellamy Young

#16. My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.

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#17. Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!

Samuel Johnson

#18. You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.

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#19. our spiritual aim is not to retreat once or twice a day for meditation, but to learn how to live every moment of our lives in touch with our spiritual core.

John Selby

#20. I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.

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#21. If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto's orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America.

Wayne Hays

#22. I fell asleep, slipping into the kind of dreams that aren't dreams at all
just memories with all the details you never thought you'd remember and couldn't believe you'd forgotten.

Paige Harbison

#23. What people don't know is that I'm a blackbelt in jujitsu, which I've been for 20 years, and I've been boxing since I've been 15 years old - those are things that come natural to me.

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#24. When you have Liam Neeson in a film, no matter how good everyone else is, it's a Liam Neeson film. And if there's wolves, and you're running, it's about Liam Neeson running from wolves.

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#25. Both were dressed as Muggles, though very inexpertly: The man with the watch wore a tweed suit with thigh-length galoshes; his colleague, a kilt and a poncho.

J.K. Rowling

#26. I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the movie is and if it matches my vision and then we go after it.

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#27. It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.

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#28. I think anybody who has a soul would themselves and their needs aside to help other people.

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#29. The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don't want to say it's a training ground; it really isn't, but what it does teach you is discipline.

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#30. Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

William Hurrell Mallock

#31. I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

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#32. I'm giddy. I am like an 8-year-old child, every day. I feel blessed for the opportunities. I feel blessed that people are responding to the work, and I'm landing myself in things that people far more talented than I am are allowing me to work on.

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