Quotes by Kevin Kline - Page 1

I'm a real pushover for animals.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Animal
Pushovers
Real
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Dogs do have feelings. I gather.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Dog
Feelings
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Dogs do have feelings, I gather.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Dogs
Gather
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Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Men
Kissing
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I just don't think I'm a very good singer.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Singers
Thinking
Very Good
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Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Inspirational
Foresight
Hindsight
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Ambition without contribution is of no significance.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Ambition
Contribution
Significance
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People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Inspiring
Motivational
Success
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You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Actors
Attractive
Fans
Talent
Me Talent Fans
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Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Comedy
Done
Extravagant
Comedies
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Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Mean
Sweating
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I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about my personal life.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Personal Life
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The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Determined
Life Is
Solitary
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Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Actors
Creative
Feels
Trusted
Freer
Inventive
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Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Play
Technique
Theatre
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I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Jobs
Guilt
Hell
Shame
Jewish
Distinguishing
Irish
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I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Character
Play
Singing
Nightclub
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I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Class
Educational
Indictment
University
Graduated
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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.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Men
Song
Writing
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It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Fearful
Language
Look Up
Looks
Incomprehensible
Word
Third
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Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Character
Fun
People
Pompous
Love Fun People
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I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Movie Star
Stars
Stupid
Thinking
Every American
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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.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Done
Satisfied
Trying
Critically
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When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Believe
Character
Outrageous
Real
Satire
Be Real
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I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Opera
Soap
Starving
Commercial
Soap Opera
Vowed
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But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Baggage
Dog
Innocent
Levels
Thinking
Dogs
Project
Onto
Simplistic
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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 never going to be anything but mediocre.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Mediocre
Piano
Students
Realized
Surrounded
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I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Famous
Drag
Gershwin
Magnetic
Piano
Related
Rooms
Totally
Porter
Pull
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Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Decent
People
President
Thinking
Corrupted
Fantasize
Remain
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The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Mind
Relaxation
Technique
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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 not neurotic. Well, there are some neurotic dogs.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Animal
Dog
Loyal
Neurotic
Pure
Simple
Dogs
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I have been in countries where I don't know a word of the language. I tried to practice my French as much as possible. I would talk with the crew. I always order in French, but then waiters respond in English. I hate that.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Country
Hate
Order
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I like variety, which is frustrating. But I've always been picky. I was afraid Pirates would be too much like Twentieth Century, broad comedy. But my agent talked me into it. I was spoiled by the range of a repertory theater.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Comedy
Pirate
Spoiled
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It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Kids
Adore
People
Sometimes
Sundance
Surprise
Work Myself Me
Ceases
French
Pinch
Robert
Robert Redford
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But you have to trust your instincts. Because you're not going to try it 20 different ways during rehearsal. You'll try it two or three different ways, maybe, but then you've got five other scenes you're shooting that day. You've got to keep going.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Different
Trying
Two
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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 vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Stars
Stupid
Thinking
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Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought "Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!" That's not what I saw necessarily but I don't think any two people see the same movie.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Kids
Men
Gay
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Well, the whole trick to doing an independent film, is to keep great pace and momentum. You're shooting maybe three times as many scenes in one day that you would on a big, luxurious budget on a luxurious schedule, and you try not to sacrifice quality for that. Things are just compressed, but essentially the same.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Independent
Sacrifice
Trying
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I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made. The actors negotiate deals where they're given just enough money to live on during the filming, but then they participate in the back-end. If the movie suddenly makes a gazillion dollars, we'll participate in that profit.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Couple
Dollars
Independent
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I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far has been kind of flukey. I went into Twentieth Century because I wanted to work for Hal Prince. The part was too small according to my agent. I had been doing only leading parts, and he thought I should continue that. But the part was enlarged in rehearsal: songs were added, and it became more physicalized and showy. Then I won awards and got attention.
Kevin Kline / Film Actor
Attention
Pessimistic
Song
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