Gene Hackman Quotes

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Gene Hackman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 30, 1930

Topics

EyesMyselfManTiredMeThink

I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.

Jerry Saltz

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There's a bigger difference between the first and second Bush administrations than there is between Bush and Obama. That's really true.

Michael Hayden

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Most people I talked to, they'd be like, your first is your worst, because you go on and everybody's probably done more than you, so you get that sense that they're on a whole different level. But they just made me feel like a piece of the family.

RJ Cyler

FamilyPeopleMeFeelYouDone

I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money.

Moby

HeartMoneyKnowThingsHearts

I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.

Lucy Liu

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For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on someone's back. I found out I didn't have the right papers - that I was here illegally - when I tried to get a driver's permit at age 16. But I am not 'illegal.' No person is.

Jose Antonio Vargas

AgeI AmMeSomeoneBackPerson

I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.

Chico Hamilton

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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Coretta Scott King

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When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

Branford Marsalis

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My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

Prince William

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People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

Suzy Amis

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The best food I've had was actually in catering at 'Single Ladies.' It's insane. I can't live in Atlanta. In fact, even if I'm offered, I'm not sure I could come back for another six months, because I'll just be fat.

Ricky Whittle

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