Brian Dennehy Quotes

At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.

Brian Dennehy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1938

Topics

GoodFootballLookingEnoughRules

My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.

Joel Burns

TogetherPoliticsChurchBornUnited

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

John Zorn

MusicTogetherSoloUpImprovisation

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people, situations, and I guess that's the interest that has driven me to work in movies.

Amitabh Bachchan

WorkPeopleMeTheatreMoviesStage

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

Ruth Brown

TryingPlaceBluesProveForever

And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.

Mitt Romney

GoodLiveJoySupportGood Times

I have a file of four million jokes... I have them cross-indexed. Whatever subject you want, I have a joke on it.

Milton Berle

YouWantJokeWhateverJokesFour

We have to be really sensitive to making sure were not creating any stories that don't feel like they're ready to be told... We have to make sure we're getting the right story and the right content from the talent we work with.

Diane Nelson

WorkTalentStoryFeelReadyRight

I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I work hard. I work 24/7.

Corrine Brown

WorkWork HardWantCockyHard

Botox? I think it's fantastic and also horrible.

Courteney Cox

ThinkHorribleBotoxFantasticAlso

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

Claire Messud

LiveHeartMeSayQuestionMust

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

Brian Eno

WorldCompleteWouldIdeaTried

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Aristotle

MindEqualOrderMaySuperiorState

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