Christian Slater Quotes
I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
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In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
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Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?
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In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.
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I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.
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I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
