F. Murray Abraham Quotes

• I’m a very proud actor.

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• I’m just having a wonderful time. It’s an interesting thing that I’m very comfortable with this material and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I did MacBeth.

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• With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I’ve worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

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• I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don’t want to see any more of that.

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• There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that’s exactly where they belong. Connery’s one.

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• Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn’t do anything except just stand there.

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• I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

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• If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers’ kids in there to fight and die.

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• I’d like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I’ll go with him. I can’t think of anything better than to die in place ‘s just beginning their lives.

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• I love parties. I love a good time.

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• I don’t want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

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• I’m not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

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• Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

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• The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

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• With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer… they’ve got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words… What more can you ask for?

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• Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn’t answer the phone.

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• Milos said, You’re my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn’t pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I’m busy painting my kitchen.

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• Whenever there were parties, I wasn’t invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

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• There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That’s Sean Connery! I don’t know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

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• The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel – that’s all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

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F. Murray Abraham (29)

Birth:	24th October, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

F. Murray Abraham became widely known during the 1980s after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus. He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as All the President's Men, Scarface, The Name of the Rose, Finding Forrester, Inside Llewyn Davis and The Grand Budapest Hotel. He is also known for his television and theatre work and is now a regular cast member on the award-winning TV series Homeland.

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