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Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy
American Actor
Born: Jul 9, 1938
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What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life. Brian Dennehy
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I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to describe it... I was an obsessed Brooklyn Dodgers fan. And I think when they left Brooklyn, which was simultaneous with me starting college, everything changed, and I haven't had the same passion for sports. Brian Dennehy
Me Sports Passion College Big Think Changed Everything Kid Brooklyn Had Football Obsessed Simultaneous Like Know Dodgers How Left Same Fan Which Describe Even Starting
I've got two artificial knees, I have an artificial shoulder, and I'm reasonably healthy given the damage I've done to myself. Everything hurts. Brian Dennehy
Myself Hurts Healthy Everything Given Knees Got Artificial Done Shoulder Reasonably Damage Two
If I could transform my stage life to the movies, I'd be Jack Nicholson. Brian Dennehy
Life Stage Could Jack Jack Nicholson Transform Movies If I Could Nicholson
I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up. Brian Dennehy
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I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no 70-year old vampires?' Apparently there are not - or even zombies for that matter. I guess they all get eaten. Brian Dennehy
Business Matter Old Year Guess Vampires Eaten Always Year-Old Get Any Anymore Movie Movie Business Ask Producers Apparently Even Hardly Zombies
I lied about serving in Vietnam, and I'm sorry. I did not mean to take away from the actions and the sacrifices of the ones who did really serve there... I did steal valor. That was very wrong of me. There is no real excuse for that. Brian Dennehy
Me Sorry Valor Lied About Steal Take Sacrifices Wrong Excuse Real Very Did Mean Really Vietnam Who Actions Away Serve Serving
My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind. Brian Dennehy
Life Father Mind Classic About Also Devotion Him Learned Intellectual
Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years ago. At the same time, I'll never quit working in the theater - until I can't memorize two lines back to back. Brian Dennehy
Time Me Back Memorize Physical Physical Activity Never Never Quit Until Learn Years Years Ago Lines Than Same Quit Same Time Anything Theater Much Working Activity Harder Two
At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes. Brian Dennehy
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It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays. Brian Dennehy
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The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do. Brian Dennehy
Work Me Business Way TV Allowed Very Movie Theater Interesting Interesting Work
My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited. Brian Dennehy
Life Good Father Sense Think Humour About Good Sense Had Lot Which Inherited Including Things
As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don't need to pay these people, and they don't. Brian Dennehy
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