Figured Quotes
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Figure Quotes
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I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.
John Taylor Gatto
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My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it
Dottie Archibald
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Subject: Life QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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[on his being passed over for Tim Burton`s 1989 Batman (1989)] I cried for an hour, but then I was okay. I wanted it! I don`t know. I figured that`s their business and they have a film in mind. I`ve already done it. I`ve done my Batman. Look, do you want ...
Adam West
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Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I`d get a college fund.
Liam Aiken
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Nan Collins, my manager, came from Gary, Indiana and suggested I adopt that name. She felt it was more exciting than Frank. I figured I`d give it a try. Good thing she didn`t come from Poughkeepsie.
Gary Cooper
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[On characterizing Wonder Woman]: "I tried to play her like a regular woman who just happened to have superhuman powers. I figured she`d lived with it every day of her life."
Lynda Carter
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I figured if I did something wrong, they`d be, like, `Oh my God, why are we working with her?` But they were really nice. (on co-stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig)
Dakota Richards
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Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world. [on award acceptance sp...
Bill Murray
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When I started, I knew I was no actor and I went to work on this Wayne thing. It was as deliberate a projection as you`ll ever see. I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up the drawl, the squint and a way of moving meant to suggest that I wasn`t look...
John Wayne
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I never really worried about it. As I`ve amassed a body of work, the questions about Tom have gone away. I figured that if I did good work, I`d be seen for what I am. - talking about his famous cousin, Tom Cruise
William Mapother
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I figured Daredevil must be Catholic because only a Catholic could be both an attorney and a vigilante.
Frank Miller
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I did that garbage film with my brother (Men at Work (1990)) That didn`t work. I did an action movie Navy Seals (1990). That didn`t work. I did a buddy cop picture (The Rookie (1990)) with Clint Eastwood. I figured that one was a shoo-in. It was an honor ...
Charlie Sheen
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To get folks to like you, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don`t mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fellow who answered the description of a right guy.
Gary Cooper
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[when asked if he ever wanted to act on the stage] "Not since I was at Grinnell. When I gave them the story that I was trying to do a Broadway play, I must have been desperate for publicity. I figured it didn`t matter what I said. I learned very early tha...
Gary Cooper
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I Went to the gym every day, I was terrified I`d look fat. The guy playing Feyd, Matt Keeslar (Feyd has a pivotal fight with Paul) is incredibly fit. So I figured, `If I`m going to be half-naked opposite this guy, then don`t eat that chocolate. And stay o...
Alec Newman
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I figured, let me just cut myself off from everybody, take a minute and pull a Flintstone, stop a speeding car by using my bare feet as brakes. - on his abrupt departure from "Chappelle`s Show" (2003).
Dave Chappelle
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I`m pretty much a boring Goody Two-shoes. I`ve definitely gotten drunk before, I don`t think it`s possible to go through college without getting drunk, but I don`t really like it at all. I actually tried my first cigarette last year at school. I just figu...
Natalie Portman
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I figured that maybe it would be interesting to try a blockbuster, but I never thought it`d happen to me.
Audrey Tautou
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On the irony of the title of her upcoming movie, The Break-Up (2006): "Well, you know. I figured just seize the moment."
Jennifer Aniston
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There was a period when I became disillusioned with the politics of what goes on in show business. My mom had missed a lot of her childhood, so I figured it would be a good time to hang up my acting shoes . . . I was probably reading too much J.D. Salinge...
Mackenzie Astin
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I`m picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity and that`s to be careful about what kind of work you do. You can work for money, do a lot of whatever comes your way a...
Sam Elliott
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I could have taken a bigger role in a smaller movie, but for me it`s never about the size of the role. I figured I could really learn something. - On being cast in We Were Soldiers (2002) opposite Mel Gibson.
Desmond Harrington
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[On his Lt. Cmdr. Data action figure] "At first, I was reluctant. But then I figured, if it`s good enough for Alec Guinness, then it`s good enough for me".
Brent Spiner
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On the outcome of impersonating former U.S. President Gerald Ford on "Saturday Night Live" (1975): "I did hear ultimately from one of Ford`s sons that some of the things had hurt his feelings, and that was a shocker to me. But I figured, `Oh well, he`s th...
Chevy Chase
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About her dyslexia: It was really difficult and frustrating back when I was really young in school. We finally figured out what it was when I was in third grade, probably like 8-years old, which was relieving, because when you are young and you have troub...
Ashley Scott
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When I figured out that to have money you had to work, I knew I couldn`t hack a regular job. So I thought acting would be good, because basically you made your own hours, were ridiculously overpaid and got the girls. Don`t laugh! That was the truth! - On ...
Val Kilmer
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You start animating it and you get to Friday and you get to Saturday and you go, `This is not funny, like we haven`t figured something out, scrap it.`
Trey Parker
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You sort of go, All right, I`m going to go out and give it a shot. I wanted more. I figured I`d get out while that ship was still sailing.
Nicole Sullivan
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You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody`s got to be one of those women.
Marcia Wallace
