F. Murray Abraham Quotes

• People desire power. I don’t know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

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• I’d like President Bush to think maybe there’s another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

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• I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

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• I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

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• I really like to experiment. That’s the only way I can work. It’s instinctive.

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• I acted my heart out.

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• As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don’t know if you’d call him a great actor, but he’s amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

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• All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

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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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