"If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin."

-- Marguerite Young

#Character Quotes #America Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. Its something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!”
“If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.”

Source : Split Images ch. 1 (1981)
“Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.”
“The best time to do something is when it can be done.”
“I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing.”

Source : Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. July, 6 2001.
“What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."”
“It's like with Smallville, I'm sure those creators didn't know I had done a ton of Star Trek work. I was just the right guy for the job. Do I gravitate towards it? You do what you are best suited to do, so in me being a comic book fan and a fan of genre from my father being in Mission: Impossible and the spy genre and all that, when I go to audition, perhaps I have a leg up because I understand the universe better.”
“I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.”

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

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