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last updated: November 28, 2023

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.
-- Pia Zadora

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One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Ashley. I was a waiter, and I had about three lines. And I was ready! I had been around people like that, and I knew they were just actors. All the work I had done, it was all there, and I felt like I knew all the mechanics.
-- Tobin Bell

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

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“The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.”
“The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.”
“Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.”
“My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.”
“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”
“When a horse falls, foam comes out of its mouth. When it falls, the legs of the horse thrash and the horse is no good... So somebody shoots it. The horse turns into glue. A machine puts the glue into bottles and children squeeze the bottles to get the glue out and stick bits of paper onto cards. Glue gets on the children's hands and the children eat the glue. And the children become the horse.”

Source : "The Tracey Fragments". www.imdb.com. 2007.
“Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.”
“There's a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say - 'Let's lobotomize and censor parts of it because we need to control it' - Â and those like us who see the Internet as a method of growing the economy and innovating in front of the world. And we have to actually reconcile those two positions. And we believe that it is much better to protect this crown jewel of civilization, which is the ability for us to communicate and express our ideas freely, than to try to lobotomize it.”
“Onward and sublime Will ever glide The silent stream of Time, That bears us on its tide.”

Source : Harvey Rice (1864). “Mount Vernon, and other poems ... Second edition”, p.22
“You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.”

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