Quotes by Bob Balaban - Page 1

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Can Not
Failing
Trying
Fail
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I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Encounters
Exciting
Watches
Spielberg
Steven
Steven Spielberg
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I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Born
Lakes
My Family
Remains
Shore
Wellington
Drive
Avenue
Lake
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God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Interesting
Made
Plot
Love God Money
Commercial
Whose
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If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Attention
Puppets
Serious
Therapy
Puppet
Paying
Sent
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I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Acting
Casting
Games
Thinking
Ahead
Cares
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I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Effects
Encounters
Expensive
Special
Special Effects
Thinking
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Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old; I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Hooked
Play
Theater
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Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Hooked
Theater
Love Time Movies
Plays
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I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Sister
Chicago
Father
Nephew
Niece
Years
Fairly
Beautifully
Whose
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My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Family
Affectionate
Dangerous
My Family
Supportive
Thank God
Wanted
God Family Thank God
Basically
Could
Loving
Thank
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I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see; you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Ideas
Mean
Special
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I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Movie
Amazing
Movies
Location
Movie Theater
Special
Theater
Whole
Idea
Magical
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I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Awards
Couple
Years
Years Ago
Directed
Won
Good Time
Produced
Released
Samuel
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But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Captivated
Magic
Undercut
Movies People Way
Box
Began
Combine
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My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Business School
Sent
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People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Light
Moving
Moving Forward
Numbers
Projects
Number
Fond
Forward
Robert
Seem
Shines
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And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Dimes
Directors
Thinking
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And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you've got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Dictator
Time Change Good
Absolute
Director
Change Time Good
Good Director
Same Time
Tyrannical
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I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Boring Things
Charging
Creating
Fascinating
Littles
Productions
Rooms
Forcing
Incredibly
Relatives
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I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Chicago
Mgm
My Family
Paramount
Years
Chain
Movie Theaters
Theaters
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I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Always Trying
Hands
New Things
People
Series
Shut Up
Better People New
Better Always People
Directed
Episode
Fair
Fair Amount
Shut
Television Series
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My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Dad
Chicago
Children
Eight
Grandmother
Movie Business
Nine
Russia
Tiny
Grocery
Grocery Store
Settled
Store
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Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Exaggerating
Your Me Know
Began
Fantasies
Immediately
Official
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I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Acceptance
Avoidance
Children
Growing Up
Midwest
Theory
Time Family Good
Family Time Good
Good Time
Happening
Jews
Ultimately
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Holocaust is very much a part of present discussion all over the place. There are little plaques everywhere you go around in different neighborhoods. "This person here was prosecuted." "This person was sent to this concentration camp." "A family of Jews lived here. They took over his business." Little, very discrete, very dignified plaques are everywhere.
Bob Balaban / Actor
Different
Holocaust
Littles
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