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Anthony LaPaglia Quotes

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

Anthony LaPaglia

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: January 31, 1959

Topics

American Career Why Actor United

Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.

Jesse Kellerman

Science Time People Self Literature

I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn't. I started getting really excited about politics.

Politics Start Real Difference Head

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Knowledge Philosophy Dark Geometry

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

Writing Seriously Never First Novel

I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.

Change Writing Process Seeing Sketch

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.

Good Music People Listening Think

Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.

Questions Place Want Run Why First

All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Funny Down I Can Nose Shoot Keep

But doing 'Parenthood,' I've never ever been happier in 35 years. I drive to work and I drive home. I'm like a factory worker and that is in my DNA. I love having a steady job with the same people. It's made me so much calmer and more content. Now I just hope the series goes on for 15 years.

Work Love Home Hope Job People

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.

Father Mother Live Music Money

Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that I wanted to be like them someday, so to come home to my apartment and see boxes of Nike gear stacked higher than my doorknob is pretty much a dream come true.

Family Home Looking Tough Fierce

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.

Time Depression War Spring World

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