Corbin Bernsen Quotes

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'Rust' really started with the passing of my dad, and me really looking back inward to my self about where I stand with all things on a faith/religious/spiritual level. And it's really put me on this interesting road and very educational, I might add, road back to understanding the role of faith in God and Christ in my life.

- Corbin Bernsen

Looking Back, My Life, Very, My Self

You can't just take an aspirin and sit around and have 12 donuts and think, 'I took my aspirin so I'm not going to have a heart attack.' It's really important each person take personal responsibility for their health. You can't keep thinking that someone else is going to take care of it. You have to be part of the solution.

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Thinking, Part, Around, Donuts

I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.

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Next, Palace, Bricklayer, Next Time

I love working for myself. I've grown to dislike the Hollywood machine. Too much bull, disappointment, and quite frankly, untalented, mindless, and hugely disrespectful people involved in the process. I'll take carrying the load on my back, all the way up Everest if needed, to be able to steer away from it.

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Love, Hollywood, Away, Mindless

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

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Need, Souls, Space Program, Explorers

A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look at life like that. It's bad enough that I have to think it. What works for me is writing against that view. There is God, there is love, there is greatness, there is a plan, and there is beauty.

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Love, Allen, Works, Larry

Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.

- Corbin Bernsen

Think, More, I Think, Tons

If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.

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Forgiveness, Deep, Lives, Clears

I believe in the goodness of man, and I believe we're all connected and that connection is through God. We have our differences. But if we will recognize that we like each other, that we are more common than uncommon, we will work toward what needs to be done to reconcile that.

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Differences, Through, Other, Reconcile

It's an addictive thing. It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush.

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Go, Like, Thing, Addictive

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

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Doing, Pages, Nighttime, Whereas

The minute my hair went, I shaved it. Thank God it became kind of cool. I just have really big ears.

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Kind, Big, Became, Shaved

'L.A. Law' has been a bit of a blessing and a curse. First of all, it was a very prestigious show that had a lot of intellect, and I was the pretty boy. I've had to battle that my whole career: 'Oh, you were the face guy. You didn't really have to act; you just had to wear the right suits.' I had to battle that.

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Career, Been, Very, Blessing

I always choose to remember the moment that was the best of Jeanne Cooper - those photos where she's in that wild dress triumphantly hoisting up the Emmy the night she finally won the damn thing. She was so proud, so happy.

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Happy, Dress, Choose, Emmy

I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's death into a healthier perspective. I really need to let her go, let her go into the infinite. I can't keep hanging onto this rope that connects us.

- Corbin Bernsen

Death, Been, Putting, Specialist

There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.

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Here, Like, Having, Coming Home

Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

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Over, Away, Innate, Scared

I've got a guy in my office that works 24/7 to shut down websites that are putting 'Dead Air' on the net for free - ripping us off. The problem is many people are of the mindset that says, 'If I can watch it for free, I'll watch it.'

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Shut, Works, Putting, Ripping

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

- Corbin Bernsen

Love, Move, Entertain, Laugh

There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very real way. The more you delve into it and give into it, you just have to have faith. The more you invest in faith, wherever it takes you, some of those jagged edges become less sharp.

- Corbin Bernsen

Some, Invest, Very, Wherever

'Christian Mingle' is about a young, modern, single woman. She's trying to achieve it all - a successful career, amazing friends, and finding Mr. Right. She stumbles into the world of online dating looking for an instant 'soul mate solution,' but ultimately ends up taking a personal journey transforming her life.

- Corbin Bernsen

Woman, Career, Soul Mate, Mate

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.

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Director, Movie, Always, Casting

Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.

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Country, Employ, Hundred, Camera

They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.

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Play, Some, Tapes, Intriguing

There's an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you're this, or you're absolutely a conservative, and those just aren't all true.

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Faith, Conservative, Any, Vote

It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush. A horrible gut wrenching thing, but it's exciting.

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Go, Like, Gut, Wrenching

I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.

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Explore, Different Places, Excitement

My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.

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Doing, Had, Dad, Stroke

When you walk away from God, and you walk away from Christ, you're basically uprooting the very foundations of being. So I don't think there is an easy way to do that. Even for the guy who becomes an atheist out of it, it's messy. It ain't pretty.

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Away, Guy, Very, Atheist

Everyone talks about reality TV and that there are no roles left. That's false. Years ago, there were three networks. Now there are 20 cable networks and so many ways for films to be exhibited. It's an exciting time for actors, writers, directors, and producers.

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Exciting Time, TV, Roles, Producers

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