#thing

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#became #because #dad #died #doing

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#always #anything #does #flattering #know

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#absolutely free #describe #free #me #something

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me. ↗

— Jason Giambi

#biggest thing #calmness #come #gotten #i

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams. ↗

— Jason Giambi

#get #going #mind #nothing #plate

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. ↗

— Peter Straub

#been #clumsy #copy #could #dozens

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#charge #deprive #future #globally #going

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit. ↗

— Dick York

#before #bite #could #denying #evidence

I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things. ↗

— Dick York

#blessed #complaints #gone #i #love

I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this. ↗

— Michael York

#being #face #feeling #fulfilled #game