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Dennis Christopher Quotes

The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.

Dennis Christopher

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 2, 1955

Topics

Me Choices Opportunities Play Safe

All over the world I'm known. Whenever I go out on the street people come up to me and say... 'Hi, Beave,' and that doesn't bother me at all. It's something that I embrace.

Jerry Mathers

People Me World Go Say Street

If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get cycled in ways that makes them available for our biology, the organisms that do the heavy lifting are bacteria.

Andrew H. Knoll

You Look Biology Planet Heavy Get

I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.

Maxwell Caulfield

End Always Up Own Playing Who

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

John Lee Hooker

Name You Cheat Knew Anyway Since

I think respectful conflict is intrinsic to the spirit of literature. It reminds us that literary history is living and evolving and thrives on us being active participants.

Matthew Pearl

History Conflict Think Literature Us

I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.

Meredith Brooks

Time Process Feel You Everything

The Bible is pregnant with politics. You cannot read the Bible from Genesis through Revelation and go through too many chapters that are not involving politics.

Tony Evans

Politics Bible You Go Through Read

When Ron Howard rings you up and says, 'I'd like you to do my film,' you do it.

Tom Holland

You Up Rings Film Like Says

You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

Roelof Botha

Yourself You Lucky Position Put

My first film festival and my first film that I've ever been in, 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' that was at Sundance.

Julia Garner

First May Film Been Festival Ever

The most frustrating thing about injuries is that they take so bloody long to heal.

Jason Statham

Injuries Long Take Most Heal Bloody

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Christopher Hitchens

Life My Life Write Read Tried Much