Peter MacNicol quotes

Peter MacNicol quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.”
-- Peter MacNicol

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“My identity was stolen by two separate peoplewho I hope are playing me better”
-- Peter MacNicol

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“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”
“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”
“What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.”
“Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.”

Source : "20 famous college commencement speeches" by Mo Elinzano, www.deseretnews.com. May 6, 2015.
“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”
“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”
“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”
“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”
“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

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