Rip Torn Quotes

• Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

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  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Help, Grow

• Don’t ever humiliate a man. If you’re gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That’s the one thing I don’t like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn’t do that to a man.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ever, Public

• Anything new is always considered the devil’s tool.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Anything, Devil

• I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

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  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Honor, Blood

• I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn’t like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends, Used

• I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greatest, Friends, Call

• Everybody says, ‘You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.’ I say, ‘Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.’

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wanted, Everybody, Guy

• If you’re lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Girl, Best, Sleep

• Let the other guys do the crybaby stuff. Go for the laughs.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stuff, Guys, Laughs

• Never think you’re better than anyone else, but don’t let anyone treat you like you’re worse than they are.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Else

• There’s always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.

  Rip Torn

  Topics in America

  Tags in Live, Kind

• When I grew up, people said, ‘You’ll never be the man your dad was.’ And I said, ‘Gee, I hope not.’

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope, Said, Dad

• You can never turn your back on the ocean.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Back, Ocean, Turn

• I’ve never hit anybody who hasn’t clocked me two or three times.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Two, Times

• If I could just get a piece of lemon, it’d be great.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Piece

• I’ve got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you’ve got an old car, you’ve gotta have at least several old cars, ’cause one’s always gonna be in the garage.

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  Tags in Car

Rip Torn (16)

Birth:	6th February, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn, is an American actor of stage, screen and television. Torn received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1983 film Cross Creek.

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