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My father had season tickets to the Packer games, and I have several of those. I have a lot of family that still lives in the Bay Area and in Wisconsin, too. And so, I like to get back as often as I can.
“My father had season tickets to the Packer games, and I have several of those. I have a lot of family that still lives in the Bay Area and in Wisconsin, too. And so, I like to get back as often as I can.”
— Tony Shalhoub · Area
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“My father had season tickets to the Packer games, and I have several of those. I have a lot of family that still lives in the Bay Area and in Wisconsin, too. And so, I like to get back as often as I can.”
“I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.”
“I've been lucky that even when I was younger, just because of my look or whatever, I was afforded the opportunity or called on to try. 'Can you do this Hispanic character?' 'Can you do this Italian character?' 'Can you do this Jewish-American character?' I just had to develop a facility for their accents.”
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“I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.”
“There's a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom you don't screw around with the mezuzah, you don't mess with the holy melodies.”
“The billboard for 'All Rise' is in the same area where I used to wait tables when I first got to L.A. I'll take it. I'll take the 10 or 15 years it took for my face to get on a billboard.”
“CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.”
“While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.”
“I think it's fair to set limits on housing benefit, so that people on welfare do not end up able to live in better areas than those doing the right thing by finding work.”
“My father had a shoe factory in a depressed and rough area of New York City called Williamsburg.”