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At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.

~Brian Dennehy

Topics: Big Columbia Else Enough Football Football Player Get Good Hopeless Just Looking Player Rules Scholarship Somebody Stayed Totally Which

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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

Topics: Actor Apprenticeship Bartender Best Does Driver Firsthand Had How Inside Jobs Just Learned Life Lives Make Possible Pretend Salesman Served Thinks Those Truck Truck Driver

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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

Topics: About Big Effect Factory Grandfather Great Guys Had He Heroes Ireland Knew Leap Me Out Real Really Stars Those Took Tough Were Who Worker

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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

Topics: About Access American Aristocrat Artist Availability Being Big Big Thing Cast Ever Gave Important Important Part Irish Kind Loss Me Melancholy Pain Part Some Thing Think Who Would I Think

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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

Topics: Allowed Ballet Ballet Dancer Cast Controlled Dancer Denzel Denzel Washington Difficult Everybody Gender Going Me Part Play Plays Sense Size Some Very Washington

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In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that's a different story. I can do things in the theater that I can't do anyplace else.

~Brian Dennehy

Topics: Any Business Different Different Story Down Else Guys Hierarchy Like Me Middle Name Pack Part Play Russell Somewhere Stars Story Theater Things Tom Tom Hanks Want Who You I Can

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The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.

~Brian Dennehy

Topics: Allowed Business Interesting Me Movie Theater Tv Very Way Work

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As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don't need to pay these people, and they don't.

~Brian Dennehy

Topics: Actor Because Companies Decided Else Everyone Everyone Else Expected Extraordinary Gets Make Million Money More More And More Need Pay Peanuts People Person Production Some Stars Today Who Work Working

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My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.

~Brian Dennehy

Topics: About Father Good Good Sense Had Humour Including Inherited Life Lot Sense Things Think Which I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: July 9th, 1938

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