Harold Russell
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STEVE YOUNG I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school. DON JOHNSON I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game. FRANK WOOLLEY ALAN ALDA STAN MUSIAL CHARLIE ROWE We graduated all of our pitching, except for (Chris) Curley, and so I have got to find out what some... BOB MYERHOFF The reason that I was not put on trial was that they [authorities] knew that I had the international... RAHIM ESENOV I kind of did that when I first got back. I got that out of my system. It was only special to me as ... JAMES WILLIS I've had high regard for a great many actors. I started out as a serious actor. I didn't start out a... GALE GORDON ROSIE PEREZ The only time I got worried was when I realized that my family might be in the building. I called th... EVAN BROCK I told our guys that they'll remember this game because of all the fun they had supporting and cheer... JEFF BOOGAART LORETTA LYNN ELIZABETH HURLEY MATT DAMON They lost it for two months. Then they had no fuel to get it out. I got there on Aug. 23. It didn't ... JENNINE PORTER Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor. HARVEY KORMAN My mom used to say, 'Give me my flowers while I can smell them,' and I got the same feeling when I f... HARRY CARSON Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got an... JAMES COBURN My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job... ALFRED MOLINA I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor. PAUL GIAMATTI I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so... URSULA ANDRESS ALEC BALDWIN I just spun around and threw it on net. [Gerry] Burke was screening. I figured if I got it up, it ha... CHRIS BLIGHT TONY CARDENAS They threw the installations of like 20 different calls on that first day, and I couldn't remember o... DAVID BOWENS I thought Barbra Streisand had walked on stage, ... When they wouldn't stop clapping and when they s... JULIE CHEN It was definitely nerves. I started thinking about my lyrics way, way, way too much when I got onsta... MELISSA MCGHEE I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about... CHARLOTTE ARNOLD I thought I was going to win, and I did not win. There is always next year. I have more people suppo... BEN GREENBERG GEORGE CARLIN CHIWETEL EJIOFOR They (police) found the soap machine a few days later, but it had been out in the rain. They shook a... BARRY BELL AARON SORKIN I reached out to these guys and showed them my appreciation (for serving). They got to hear my exper... CAMERON CLAPP MARYJANICE DAVIDSON I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time... DAMIAN LOEB MATT DAMON I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor,... MARK HARMON When I was 13, my mom checked me into a modeling agency. Then, out of nowhere, they asked me to audi... KJ APA I was stunned. I know I try to do a lot for the other families, and I appreciate everyone who nomina... CHERISE FRASER TEMPLE GRANDIN SHIA LABEOUF LEONARDO DICAPRIO It's always special to play for Canada and it was nice because I got a chance to play in the Olympic... ROBERTO LUONGO They had a big dinner at the church after the funeral; when we got back, I found out then he had use... TERRI SADLER When we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, my sister and I did a local play. My whole family got... DANIELLE PANABAKER When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had op... BECKY LYNCH HENRY FONDA BUDDY HACKETT GIL SCOTT-HERON JAMES FRANCO DON RICKLES MICHAEL STIPE Honestly, I never wanted to be more than a good supporting actor. Really, I enjoy it. PAUL GIAMATTI When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media - on the Internet, on my Facebook. Tha... ALEXIA FAST When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I at... ALICIA SACRAMONE I've got friends and family that i respect When i think i'm too good They put me in check Ch-Check I... BEASTIE BOYS I've got friends and family that i respect When i think i'm too good They put me in check Ch-Chec... BEASTIE BOYS DAVID MORSE HUNTER S. THOMPSON When I got in [to SSU in 2001], I found out that they had never done a feasibility study. The presid... HANK FORD ADAM GRANT My mother approved, my father just didn't accept the idea of my being an actor. I think that's the r... JAMES STEWART I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed the... EDDIE CAMPBELL I don't want to be just considered a breakout comedic supporting actor. I want to be a breakout ... DONALD FAISON I got wild, walked a couple of guys and hit a guy and they only got three runs, ... When we scored f... BRUCE CHEN REGINA BRETT When (police) got there, all I wanted was for someone to put their arms around me. Instead, I got pu... DANIEL HOROWITZ I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater where... NOLAN NORTH AL PACINO They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got... JONATHAN RICHMAN I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I... RON EGLASH I got sucker-punched totally out of the blue... wham! and that messed up my neck again, and that's w... CHRISTOPHER DUNN I think when everyone found out I was Moana, we got banana bread practically every night of the week... AULI'I CRAVALHO My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and int... MAE WHITMAN A wise guy Italian. And I was a cocky little guy - just nominated for best actor on Broadway. EDDIE MEKKA I figured the rule was that when you give the guy the ball out of bounds, the ball is live. They hav... MIKE D'ANTONI Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was al... CHRISTIAN SLATER I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; ... R. L. STINE CHARLI XCX The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was... JOHNNY WEISSMULLER I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came righ... 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The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them. HAROLD RUSSELL I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84. HAROLD RUSSELL My life is a series of things that just happen. HAROLD RUSSELL The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in conte... HAROLD RUSSELL I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84. HAROLD RUSSELL They want you to come eat a pizza, HAROLD RUSSELL I think we pay enough now. HAROLD RUSSELL My problem was to make the people I met feel at ease. I just acted myself and didn't sulk in corners... HAROLD RUSSELL The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them. HAROLD RUSSELL HAROLD PINTER I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect. HAROLD RAMIS HAROLD TAYLOR If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar. HAROLD WILSON Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start. HAROLD WILSON I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep... HAROLD WILSON The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. HAROLD WILSON The monarchy is a labor intensive industry. HAROLD WILSON This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing. HAROLD WILSON One man's wage increase is another man's price increase. HAROLD WILSON A week is a long time in politics. HAROLD WILSON Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power. HAROLD WILSON I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat. HAROLD WILSON We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution. HAROLD WILSON I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle. HAROLD WILSON One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be. HAROLD WARNER Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God. HAROLD WARNER The true character of ministry is a servants heart. HAROLD WARNER HAROLD TAYLOR I don't think I have a black-hat image. HAROLD SIMMONS I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the ima... HAROLD SIMMONS I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do... HAROLD SIMMONS Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given q... HAROLD SIMMONS I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widel... HAROLD ROSS Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly. HAROLD ROSS HAROLD ROSENBERG HAROLD ROSENBERG HAROLD ROSENBERG HAROLD ROSENBERG HAROLD ROSENBERG HAROLD ROSENBERG I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts. HAROLD ROBBINS Hemingway was a jerk. HAROLD ROBBINS My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're... HAROLD RAMIS I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time beca... HAROLD RAMIS I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work. HAROLD RAMIS The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park... HAROLD RAMIS I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so ... HAROLD RAMIS Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that an... HAROLD RAMIS I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently sug... HAROLD RAMIS I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human ... HAROLD RAMIS First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with... HAROLD RAMIS I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core... HAROLD RAMIS I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at... HAROLD RAMIS Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone. HAROLD RAMIS I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit. HAROLD RAMIS I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'... HAROLD RAMIS Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You... HAROLD RAMIS Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're fu... HAROLD RAMIS The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it ... HAROLD RAMIS I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke. HAROLD RAMIS How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood. HAROLD RAMIS HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really c... HAROLD PERRINEAU I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had e... HAROLD PERRINEAU You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by ... HAROLD PERRINEAU HAROLD NICOLSON HAROLD NICOLSON I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We ... HAROLD NICHOLAS If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went th... 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HAROLD HAMM Oil is ancient wealth in the ground. HAROLD HAMM A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices. HAROLD HAMM The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking ... HAROLD HAMM I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my car... HAROLD HAMM Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism. HAROLD HAMM I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, drivi... HAROLD HAMM I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling. HAROLD HAMM President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy. HAROLD HAMM President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash p... HAROLD HAMM I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it. HAROLD HAMM I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to En... HAROLD HAMM No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning. HAROLD HAMM It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on start... HAROLD HAMM HAROLD FEINSTEIN HAROLD FEINSTEIN HAROLD FEINSTEIN HAROLD FEINSTEIN HAROLD FEINSTEIN HAROLD FEINSTEIN HAROLD EVANS HAROLD EVANS HAROLD EVANS HAROLD EVANS HAROLD EVANS HAROLD COFFIN HAROLD COFFIN HAROLD COFFIN HAROLD COFFIN HAROLD COFFIN HAROLD COFFIN HAROLD COFFIN I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes. HAROLD BUDD I'm not really a pianist. HAROLD BUDD I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living. HAROLD BUDD Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions t... HAROLD BUDD I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career. 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GALE HAROLD I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try. GALE HAROLD You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa... GALE HAROLD You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either. GALE HAROLD Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. ... GALE HAROLD My interests are not really with television, per se. GALE HAROLD I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium. GALE HAROLD HAROLD PINTER HAROLD MACMILLAN Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. HAROLD GENEEN HAROLD BLOOM
I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor... 
It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life. 
When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything li... 
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Acade... 
I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an act... 
I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters i... 
When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gott... 
When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was r... 
I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie fil... 
They asked me to come in and read for them. My reading was horrible. I laughed through the whole thi... 
I was shocked when they nominated me for five different things, 
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When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked o... 
When you have 20 nominations - 20 names on the nomination list of best actor, supporting actor and a... 
When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons 
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When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a... 
As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven... 
I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. Bu... 
I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me,... 
I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, an... 
I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a ... 
I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made ... 
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been d... 
When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get br... 
When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was ge... 
There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I no... 
In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I c... 
National Observer became my road gig out of San Francisco. I was too much for them. I would wander i... 
Last year, when I got that stress fracture and I was out for a while, I got really down on myself. M... 
Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a chi... 
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When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter's body. But I kind of fi... 
The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I wa... 
My thoughts were interrupted when I heard someone got slapped. By the sound alone, one could tell th... 
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the criti... 
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. 
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, es... 
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of w... 
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself fr... 
We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater. 
One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was. 
The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it ou... 
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill. 
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. 
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. 
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. 
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father... 
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed. 
Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where peo... 
When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and ... 
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad. 
I think America has a brilliant future. 
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive. 
The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do. 
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear. 
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined ped... 
Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think o... 
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, th... 
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretens... 
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is ... 
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind... 
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo... 