"No matter how hard you train, Somebody will train harder. No matter how hard you run, Somebody will run harder. No matter how hard you want it, Somebody will want it more, I am Somebody."

-- Steve Prefontaine

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“Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"”
“The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and the Polish did in generations before. A lot of the Irish came here back in the turn of the 19th to the 20th century because there were no opportunities and no options at home for them. There were no jobs and there was extreme poverty. They came here to be able to send money back home.”
“Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.”
“I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.”
“My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.”
“I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.”
“If you listen to fools... The Mob Rules!”

Source : FaceBook post by Ronnie James Dio from May 26, 2014

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