Anthony Geary Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction - so I'll usually take a book and go off to one of my favorite bistros for a cappuccino or espresso or maybe I'll have some lovely smoked salmon for breakfast.”
-- Anthony Geary

Source : "Exclusive: General Hospital's Anthony Geary On Life, Death and the Future of Luke and Laura". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. October 9, 2013.

#Book Quotes #Espresso Quotes #Lovely Quotes

“Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.”
-- Anthony Geary

Source : "Exclusive: Anthony Geary, Jane Elliot, Kin Shriner Dish the Golden Days of General Hospital". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. April 1, 2013.

#Ego Quotes #Want Quotes #Wheels Quotes

“I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.”
-- Anthony Geary

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“People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.”
-- Anthony Geary

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Why Not Quotes

“They do not air 'GH' in Holland, so I don't get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even if the show did play over there it probably wouldn't affect things much. It's a wonderful life and I am so blessed.”
-- Anthony Geary

Source : "Exclusive: General Hospital's Anthony Geary On Life, Death and the Future of Luke and Laura". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. October 9, 2013.

#Blessed Quotes #Air Quotes #Play Quotes

“I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.”
-- Anthony Geary

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Children Quotes #Liars Quotes #Lying Quotes

“In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.”
-- Anthony Geary

Source : "Exclusive: General Hospital's Anthony Geary On Life, Death and the Future of Luke and Laura". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. October 9, 2013.

#Bus Stops Quotes #People Quotes #Soap Quotes

“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”

“Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.”

“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.”

“In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.”

“When somebody is a little bit wrong - say, when a waited puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk - it is often quite easy to explain to them how and why they are wrong. But if somebody is surprisingly wrong - say, when a waiter bites your nose instead of taking your order - you can often be so surprised that you are unable to say anything at all. Paralyzed by how wrong the waiter is, your moth would hang slightly open and your eyes would blink over and over, but you would be unable to say a word.”

“The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.”

“I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.”

“How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.”

Source : Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.154, Vintage

“It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.”