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I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.
Brendan Gleeson
If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.
Martin Seligman
Tags: Work You Only
We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
Lance Bass
Tags: About Every Actor
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
Iggy Pop
It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.
Steven Heighton
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What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
Thomas Friedman
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
Thomas Friedman
Tags: Just More Than
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Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.


Jeremy Renner
Tags: Just Life Some
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Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.


Chelsea Clinton
Tags: Some Every Day
How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.
Santiago Cabrera
Tags: You Me Way
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I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.


Robert Downey, Jr.
Tags: Think Just More
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
Vittorio Gassman
Tags: Like His Kind
You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common thread: everybody wants to do it because they love it.
Gillian Alexy
Tags: You Because Love
I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.
Tyler Perry
Tags: God Family Out
God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
Walter Kirn
Tags: God You Who
I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.
Emily Browning
Tags: People About Than
I don't like to watch a movie where it's just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release.
Catherine Hardwicke
Tags: Like Just Want
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.


Rachel Kushner
Tags: More Than Some
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound
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Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.


Tim Howard