A Quote by Richard Jenkins

I'd like to play the whale in 'Moby Dick.' If I keep eating, I may end up getting there.

Richard Jenkins

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Eating End Getting Keep Like May Moby Dick Play Up Whale

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Richard Jenkins
American - Actor
Born: May 4, 1947

The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

Gavin O'Connor

Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.

Nathaniel Philbrick

No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.

Sophie Hannah

When your Dad was the creator of 'Moby Dick' you kind of steer clear of getting compared in a solo-ing aspect.

Jason Bonham

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

Nathaniel Philbrick

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

Mark Kurlansky

Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.

Billy Boyd

Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.

Nathaniel Philbrick

'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.'

Christopher Golden

I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I admire British literature for its insistence on dealing with social class. It may have been an influence.