Len Cariou quotes

“For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.”
-- Len Cariou

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“I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.”
-- Len Cariou

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“I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.”
-- Len Cariou

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“I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.”
-- Len Cariou

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“I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.”
-- Len Cariou

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“I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.”
-- Len Cariou

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“It's a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.”
-- Len Cariou

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“My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.”
-- Len Cariou

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“My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.”
-- Len Cariou

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“A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.”

“The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.”

“Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.”

“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”

“The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.”

“Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.”

“Act well your part, there all the honour lies.”

Source : Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death”, p.104

“I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.”

Source : "Aasif Mandvi talks about acting, comedy and Middle Eastern Corresponding". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. November 02, 2011.

“I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.”

“Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.”