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| Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it? (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it. (Armand Assante (1278)) | |
| I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. (Fred Astaire (1278)) | |
| I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around. (Fred Astaire (1278)) | |
| The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. (Fred Astaire (1278)) | |
| This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. (Fred Astaire (1278)) | |
| At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| I think people really want to be happy. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| If you do something and you really care and you want to convey something in a subtle way, there are people out there that are going to pick up on it. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| People are smarter than you might think. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated! (John Astin (1278)) | |
| There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard. (John Astin (1278)) | |
| Because, you know what your hours are going to be and they also have periods of time off within the season, that you just don't get on an hour show. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| "ER" is clearly a phenomenon that really takes place once in a decade, if you're lucky. It was clear that we couldn't compete with that. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| On my side of things, I was sent a script and asked if I wanted to do it. So, whatever decision making went into it prior to that, I'm not privy to. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
| The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with. (Adam Arkin (1278)) | |
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