James Coburn Quotes

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

James Coburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 31, 1928 - November 18, 2002

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When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

Andrew Lincoln

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I've often said that the ISIS-Syria-Iraq mess is about as bad as it could be.

Michael Hayden

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Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.

Stewart Butterfield

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America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.

Simon Schama

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I don't really know how strong someone is if they're compelled to a life of violence. Is that strong? No. That's damaged.

Ruth Negga

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I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.

Matt Bomer

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Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Mira Nair

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We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see.

Louie Schwartzberg

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I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

Jared Kushner

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I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.

Jon Pardi

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If you want a job, do what I did: work for other people for 50 years; but the odds of you getting swallowed up by the blasphemous godless, decadent, deadly spirit of today's show business are thousands to one.

Dean Jones

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When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.

Chris Rock

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