Brian Dennehy Quotes
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I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.
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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.
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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…
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Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of 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,…
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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…
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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…
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The older I get, the more interesting the part has to be. Bobby Knight is extremely interesting.
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My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.
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