Norman Fell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember.
-- Norman Fell

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Hollywood sucks. I've got the bruises to prove it.
-- Norman Fell

#Hollywood #Bruises #Prove It
I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.
-- Norman Fell

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I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.
-- Norman Fell

#Home #Class #Casting

The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".
I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with...
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute. As long as this appears to be lacking, what is present can be demolished only by fools or criminals.
In interviews, on the set, talking to people, I'll just start talking about my parents' divorce, and go on and on. My mom's always like, 'You don't have to be that honest. You have to be more fake.' You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
Women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities...How long a time it took me after my divorce to understand that being alone is not the same as being lonely.

Norman Fell famous quotes

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