F. Murray Abraham Quotes

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F. Murray Abraham

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 24, 1939

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

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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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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

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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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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

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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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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

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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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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.

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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.

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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

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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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