Juliet Landau famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

  • God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

  • I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

  • I'm a character actor.

  • Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.

  • A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

  • I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

  • I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

  • I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

  • At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.