Clifton Collins, Jr. quotes

“Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since One Eight Seven.”
-- Clifton Collins, Jr.

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“I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you”
-- Clifton Collins, Jr.

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

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“Comedy is great; you get to laugh! Life is so serious.”
-- Clifton Collins, Jr.

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“I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.”
-- Clifton Collins, Jr.

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Clifton Collins Jr. Discusses His Burgeoning Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. June 26, 2009.

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“I think it's not a big secret that I like to work a lot. I really go out for projects when I find things I'm passionate about.”
-- Clifton Collins, Jr.

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Clifton Collins Jr. Discusses His Burgeoning Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. June 26, 2009.

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“I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to.”
-- Clifton Collins, Jr.

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com

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“We all have our demons, even if we say we don't.”
-- Clifton Collins, Jr.

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com

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“As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.63, Delacorte Press

“As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.”

Source : Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

“Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”

Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.

“Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

“A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”

“In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.”

“I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.”

“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”

“Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.”