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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
Big
Columbia
Else
Enough
Football
Football Player
Get
Good
Hopeless
Just
Looking
Player
Rules
Scholarship
Somebody
Stayed
Totally
Which
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Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.
~ Brian Dennehy
Believe
Call
I Believe
I Believe That
Just
Matter
Me
Morality
Old-Fashioned
Opinion
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From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.
~ Brian Dennehy
Actor
Apprenticeship
Bartender
Best
Does
Driver
Firsthand
Had
How
Inside
Jobs
Just
Learned
Life
Lives
Make
Possible
Pretend
Salesman
Served
Thinks
Those
Truck
Truck Driver
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I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.
~ Brian Dennehy
Catholic
Come
DNA
Family
Irish
Irish Catholic
Part
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I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.
~ Brian Dennehy
Being
Extraordinary
Gene
He
Jack
Jack Nicholson
Like
Luminous
Makes
Man
Natural
Nicholson
Ordinary
Ordinary Man
Personality
Problems
Situation
Star
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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
About
Actions
Away
Did
Excuse
Lied
Me
Mean
Real
Really
Sacrifices
Serve
Serving
Sorry
Steal
Take
Valor
Very
Vietnam
Who
Wrong
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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
Big
Brooklyn
Changed
College
Describe
Dodgers
Even
Everything
Fan
Football
Had
How
I Think
Kid
Know
Left
Like
Me
Obsessed
Passion
Same
Sports
Starting
Think
Which
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I remember playing John Wayne Gacy, serial killer, very sick, neurotic, screwed-up guy. You know what? There's a part of me there, too, and you explore that.
~ Brian Dennehy
Explore
Guy
I Remember
John
John Wayne
Killer
Know
Me
Neurotic
Part
Playing
Remember
Screwed-Up
Serial
Sick
Too
Very
Wayne
You
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I was in high school in 1953 when the Committee of One Million circulated a petition urging that Red China - one third of the world's population - be excluded from the United Nations. And I remember I refused to sign it, at 14 or 15 years old.
~ Brian Dennehy
China
Committee
Excluded
High
High School
I Remember
Million
Nations
Old
One-Third
Petition
Population
Red
Refused
Remember
School
Sign
Third
United
United Nations
Urging
World
Years
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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
Always
Any
Anymore
Apparently
Ask
Business
Eaten
Even
Get
Guess
Hardly
Matter
Movie
Movie Business
Old
Producers
Vampires
Year
Year-Old
Zombies
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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
Back
Before
Breath
Certain
Certain Things
Days
Feel
Hot
Likes
Little
My Time
Neck
People
Possible
Really
Things
Time
Up
Want
Who
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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
Artificial
Damage
Done
Everything
Given
Got
Healthy
Hurts
Knees
Myself
Reasonably
Shoulder
Two
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If I could transform my stage life to the movies, I'd be Jack Nicholson.
~ Brian Dennehy
Could
If I Could
Jack
Jack Nicholson
Life
Movies
Nicholson
Stage
Transform
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If you're sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to be almost negligible, or even in television. But in the theatre, there are still things to do, very interesting, very profound things.
~ Brian Dennehy
Almost
Chances
Even
Fascinating
Getting
Interesting
Low
Movies
Part
Profound
Pushing
Still
Television
Theatre
Things
Tremendously
Very
You
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It took a long time for me to have any impact in the business because I didn't look like an actor, I didn't sound like an actor.
~ Brian Dennehy
Actor
Any
Because
Business
Impact
Like
Long
Long Time
Look
Me
Sound
Time
Took
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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
Allowed
Ballet
Ballet Dancer
Cast
Controlled
Dancer
Denzel
Denzel Washington
Difficult
Everybody
Gender
Going
Me
Part
Play
Plays
Sense
Size
Some
Very
Washington
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My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.
~ Brian Dennehy
About
Also
Classic
Devotion
Father
Him
Intellectual
Learned
Life
Mind
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My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.
~ Brian Dennehy
About
Big
Effect
Factory
Factory Worker
Grandfather
Great
Guys
Had
He
Heroes
Ireland
Knew
Leap
Me
Out
Real
Really
Stars
Those
Took
Tough
Were
Who
Worker
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My problem is, if any place I'm sleeping catches on fire, I've got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.
~ Brian Dennehy
Any
Because
Everything
Fire
Get
Got
Me
Minutes
Morning
Moving
Place
Problem
Sleeping
Takes
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No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.
~ Brian Dennehy
About
Access
American
Aristocrat
Artist
Availability
Being
Big
Big Thing
Cast
Ever
Gave
I Think
Important
Important Part
Irish
Kind
Loss
Me
Melancholy
No-One
Pain
Part
Some
Thing
Think
Who
Would
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