Edward Herrmann quotes

“Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Fruedian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.”
-- Edward Herrmann

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“I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.”
-- Edward Herrmann

Source : "An Actor Takes His Place on a Stage of a Different Sort" by Paul Stenquist, www.nytimes.com. March 5, 2010.

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“How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.”
-- Edward Herrmann

Source : "Genteel Giant". Interview with Pamela Bock, www.backstage.com. October 8, 2003.

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“Humor is not far from my vocabulary.”
-- Edward Herrmann

Source : "Edward Herrmann talks to Tribute about his new DVD Treasure Buddies". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. January 23, 2012.

#Vocabulary Quotes

“Cats are hard to train, but they can train them.”
-- Edward Herrmann

Source : "Edward Herrmann talks to Tribute about his new DVD Treasure Buddies". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. January 23, 2012.

#Cat Quotes #Train Quotes #Hard Quotes

“I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.”
-- Edward Herrmann

Source : Source: www.tribute.ca

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“If I'm off the stage after two or three years I get itchy and I have to get back onstage.”
-- Edward Herrmann

Source : "Edward Herrmann talks to Tribute about his new DVD Treasure Buddies". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. January 23, 2012.

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“If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.”

“As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.”

“Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.”

“Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.”

“If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.”

“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”

“Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.”

Source : Adelbert von Chamisso (1845). “The Shadowless Man; Or, The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl”

“Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”

“Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone...”

“Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.”