Born: 1960-01-12
Profession: Actor
Nation: Canadian
Biography of Oliver Platt
I think of myself as an actor.
Tags: ActorPeople start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
Tags: Act, Dying, StartThe only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
Tags: Become, Wanted, YoungI love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
Tags: Funny, Great, LoveThe directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
Tags: End, Good, TimeYou know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.
Tags: Life, Mean, WhateverYou know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role.
Tags: Fun, Love, StoryYou know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.
Tags: Child, Wife, YourselfI would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Tags: Beauty, Character, RatherIt is well for one to know more than he says.
Tags: SaysNo guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Tags: After, Become, FriendVisit partners pages
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There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Tags: Best, Brother, WomanThis is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
Tags: Feet, Great, WineProperty is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Tags: Death, Life, MenNothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Tags: Friend, Friendship, HeavenThe day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Tags: Money, Night, SunCourage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Tags: Children, Courage, LifeFriendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Tags: Friendship, Single, SoulThe poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Tags: Makes, Poor, RichI much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
Tags: Compliment, Criticism, SincereMan is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
Tags: WolfEvery man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Tags: Friend, Life, WiseHe whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
Tags: Health, Love, YoungIf you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
Tags: Overcome, Reason, RejoiceFor nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
Tags: Curious, Malevolent, Nobody