Michael Kelly Quotes

I've done so many jobs. As an actor, you have to. I didn't have my parents footing the bill when I moved to New York. I moved here with, like, 300 bucks. I was a bike messenger. I was a waiter. I was a bartender. I worked in a consignment shop for high-end designers.

Michael Kelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 22, 1969

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I live in the country, and I live a fairly natural, holistic life. Sometimes I get put up in hotels where they use chemical sprays to clean things, or there are chemicals used that I stay away from.

Melissa Leo

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The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he preaches and sings; he's a great interpreter of my music.

Andrae Crouch

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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

John Henry Newman

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I know, when I was in film school, some of my films were silly, but a lot of them were more dramatic. I don't think I intentionally set out to do comedy stuff. I guess that's a consequence of coming up working with David O. Russell and skewing toward those sensibilities.

Jeff Baena

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When I can find a story that explores something that I don't know what I think, I've got a play. If I knew the answer, I would write a speech or an essay.

Mike Bartlett

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I became vegetarian after 'Meat is Murder' in 1985.

Mike Joyce

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As producers, we can influence where the budget goes, but only the director really controls what tone, what type of movie you are trying to make.

Michelle Yeoh

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The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Lucy Larcom

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I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

Christopher Priest

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In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.

Clint Smith

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Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Chuck Close

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Acting was fun for a while. I loved every minute of the really good things I did but probably wasn't as good as I should have been.

Anouska Hempel

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