Bob Balaban Quotes

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

Bob Balaban

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 16, 1945

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People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

Joey Adams

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There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

John Lithgow

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When the Holocaust happened, I was 15 years old. My parents kept it a secret from me, despite belonging to the Red Cross. I only found out about it much later. Even today I still feel guilty, because I was an ignoramus between the age of 15 and 25. I am sorry I couldn't stand up for them.

Jean-Luc Godard

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I learnt a lesson that you mustn't worry what people think if you are achieving your objective.

Michael Ashcroft

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The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

Michael Fassbender

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Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

Simon Callow

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'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.

Rob Sheffield

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I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

Lou Reed

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I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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There's a lot more blue-collar workers out there than the so-called elites.

Corey Stewart

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Honestly, I hate watching myself on TV - I have always hated watching myself and listening to myself.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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