Aidan Quinn Quotes

• I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.

  Aidan Quinn

  People, Worry, Trying

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• I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

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  Thinking, Acting, Nomad

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Make them laugh, and then make them listen.

  Aidan Quinn

  Laughing

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• I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

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  Thinking, People, My Family

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• I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

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  Stupid, Mean, Past

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• I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

  Aidan Quinn

  Normal, Persons

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• I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

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  Jobs, Cities, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not particularly a career-oriented guy. I'm lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I'd like to have the choice of the better roles.

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  Careers, Interesting, People

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• I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.

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  Liam, Occasions, My Friends

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• I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

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  Auras, Pants, Short Pants

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• There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.

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  Phones, Used, Rings

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• There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.

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  Tvs, These Days

  "HuffPost Interview: Aidan Quinn talks about Sarah’s Key". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2011.

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• I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

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  Nice, Levels, Tables

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who's concerned about his body - an athlete, say - I'll get in shape. If I'm playing a character who doesn't or wouldn't, I don't. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.

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  Moving, Athlete, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.

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  Great Things, Parting

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• Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

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  Baseball, Boys, Eight

  "Fictional character: Joe O'Malley". "Stolen Summer", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.

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  Stars, Thinking, Office

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• I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods.

  Aidan Quinn

  Cities, Guy, Woods

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I get to do interesting roles and make a living.

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  Interesting, Roles

  "HuffPost Interview: Aidan Quinn talks about Sarah’s Key". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2011.

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• I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big.

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  School, Mean, Energy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

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  Fire, Focus, Everyday

  "HuffPost Interview: Aidan Quinn talks about Sarah’s Key". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2011.

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• I don't care. I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that. Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview--they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.

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  Smart, Stupid, Mean

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• Money is just something to be circulated.

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• Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

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  Nice, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

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• The family is where most of our joy comes from.

  Aidan Quinn

  Family, Joy

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