Christian Slater Quotes
My father was an actor, and my mother was his agent, so I had it on both sides: the crazy actor and his representation.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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I guess music is very global.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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Cricket is my first love.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
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“He who sees the past as surprise free is bound to have a future full of surprises.”
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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
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I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.
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My father was an actor, and my mother was his agent, so I had it on both sides: the crazy actor and his representation.
