Kevin Kline Quotes

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• People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.
• I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.
• The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
• Dogs do have feelings, I gather.
• It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
• Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
• I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I…
• Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
• We're all animals, but we're a different sort of animal. Maybe they're better than us. They're more loyal. They're more pure. They're more simple. They're…
• I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.
• I'm a real pushover for animals.
• Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.
• I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
• I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.
• I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was…
• Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
• I just don't think I'm a very good singer.
• I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
• I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.
• Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

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