Bruce McGill Quotes

There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you're part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be.

Bruce McGill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1950

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Most of my friends are plumbers.

Joe Cole

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In the game of 'Survivor,' there is no time for regrets.

Jenna Morasca

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When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very carefully here - effective in our expansion. We really had - expansion of government agencies and expansion of use of contractors. Effective, we were; efficient, we weren't. And so, as director of the CIA, I went after the inefficiencies part.

Michael Hayden

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I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

John Pople

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There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

Liya Kebede

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Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.

Janis Karpinski

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We want 'Doll & Em' to be something we're proud of. We'd love to do another series, but it's not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.

Dolly Wells

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I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen.

Debra Granik

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I don't think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we're pretty much two different kinds of actors. He's done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like 'Uncle Buck' and 'Home Alone' and 'Home Alone 2.' And I've done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.

Brian Bonsall

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Chicago is old stomping grounds for me.

Bobby Womack

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I'm such a dog person. I dunno, I just feel like it really enriches your life, to have something to care for.

Autumn Reeser

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I used to have this idea that you can spend years in the movies and TV and then, at the drop of a hat, say 'Oh, I'll go back and do the theater.'

Peter Falk

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