"No one would ever cast me as an……" — Brian Dennehy
"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."
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9 Quotes by Brian Dennehy
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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…
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I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes…
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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…
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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.…
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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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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're…
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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
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I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this…
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Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
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Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
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Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims…
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all…
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