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" Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him. "
F. Murray Abraham
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" The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking. "
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Love
" My family is blue-collar - coal miners and steelworkers. My father was an automobile mechanic, and us boys were brought up to work. I used to pump gasoline at 11 cents a gallon. I thought I would like to be a first-rate mechanic; a respected, hard-working man. "
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Thought
" With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia. "
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Russia
Son
Instrument
" Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there. "
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Stand
Man
Extraordinary
" Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen. "
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View
Me
Kitchen
" It sounds funny, but I felt that my responsibility as an American actor was to let the British know we can act as well as they can. "
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Funny
Responsibility
Know
" I worked with Harold Pinter once as my first Broadway show. It was one of the most exciting things that ever happened to me. "
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Things
Show
Most
" People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace. "
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Want
People
Know
" I acted my heart out. "
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Heart
Acted
Out
" The difficulty is capturing surprise on film. "
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Surprise
Capturing
Difficulty
" I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that. "
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Two
Want
Texas
" I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it. "
F. Murray Abraham
Nice
Mean
Just
" There are real tricks to getting a job that I just don't like or understand - it feels too close to pandering. I've tried it, but it doesn't work. "
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Understand
Real
Like
" As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. "
F. Murray Abraham
Man
Slow
Sitting
" I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it. "
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Serious
Man
Think
" I cannot imagine not working. I don't understand the word 'retirement.' "
F. Murray Abraham
Working
Understand
Retirement
" Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone. "
F. Murray Abraham
Trying
Walk
Phone
" With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for? "
F. Murray Abraham
Beautiful
Literature
You
" No matter all of your credits and accomplishments - you can be forgotten in a trice. The idea that you have to go back and start again after considerable success can destroy you if you're not strong. I never lost track of who I am and what I can do, because I continually find things to do, but not everyone has that resource. "
F. Murray Abraham
You
Success
Strong
" I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on people who really need freedom. "
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Freedom
People
Think
" I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic. "
F. Murray Abraham
Politics
Struggle
Humanity
" I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue. "
F. Murray Abraham
Right
See
Out
" I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam. "
F. Murray Abraham
Way
Like
Vietnam
" I'm the spokesperson for the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees. My father was from Syria. It's an American initiative, and it's multi-faith. So, it's maybe 60-65 different organisations, Jews, Christians, Hindus... Anyway, it's very important and serious. "
F. Murray Abraham
Father
American
Serious
" I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely. "
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Doing
Back
Way
" I can't pretend at how much I object to all of the plays that keep being brought back over and over again, the so-called classic plays. I mean how many times can we see 'The Glass Menagerie?' "
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See
Over
Mean
" I'm a very proud actor. "
F. Murray Abraham
Very
Proud
Actor
" After I finished school, I headed for Los Angeles, thinking, 'Movies. Beaches.' But I wanted to do serious stage work, so I upped sticks and moved to New York to study. I did the usual day jobs to support myself - waiting on tables, washing dishes, parking cars, anything to pay the rent. I was a terrible waiter, by the way. "
F. Murray Abraham
Myself
Day
School
" There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way. "
F. Murray Abraham
Way
End
Feel
" I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth. "
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Time
Interesting
Comfortable