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Brian Dennehy Quotes

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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. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes  (Brian Dennehy Quotes) If I could transform my stage life to the movies, I’d be Jack Nicholson  (Brian Dennehy Quotes) It’d be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I’m not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays.  (Brian Dennehy Quotes) 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.  (Brian Dennehy Quotes) I was in high school in 1953 when the Committee of One Million circulated a petition urging that Red China - one third of the world’s population - be excluded from the United Nations. And I remember I refused to sign it, at 14 or 15 years old.  (Brian Dennehy Quotes) I like sports. I’m a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don’t even know how to describe it... I was an obsessed Brooklyn Dodgers fan. And I think when they left Brooklyn, which was simultaneous with me starting college, everything changed, and I haven’t had the same passion for sports.  (Brian Dennehy Quotes) My problem is, if any place I’m sleeping catches on fire, I’ve got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.  (Brian Dennehy Quotes) My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.  (Brian Dennehy Quotes) From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend  (Brian Dennehy Quotes)