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LeRoy Neiman Quotes

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 8, 1921 - June 20, 2012

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Life Stars Feet Jazz Difficult Size

With experience, you suddenly realise you know how to do things or that you've done something like this before. And I think as you get more confident, you can sit back and try and weigh up the options of doing something or not doing something.

Experience Think Confident Doing You

I'm having so much fun, because you know what? They cast a Star Wars fan in a Star Wars movie. Biiiiiig mistake!

Mistake Fun You Know Star Cast

I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.

Age Boat Remember Early Sailing

People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.

Family Hate People Think True Royal

Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.

Matthew Heineman

Age Growing Up Guilty Filmmaking Up

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

Character Personality Me Play Actor

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

Me Believe Someone You Percent Once

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

Older Than Simply Exceptions Few

I feed horses and goats and sheep all day and, once in a while, come and talk about movies.

Day Sheep Movies Talk Goats Feed

I have an open door with WWE as far as wrestling goes.

Door Wrestling Open WWE Far Goes

I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.

Time Blessing City Ideas Think You

I know all too well what it takes to have a hit: A little bit of luck, a little bit of work, a little bit of talent.

Work Talent Luck Know Little Well

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