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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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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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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...those hostilities were not very well contained, as we found out on September 11th, and so the notion that somehow policies that finally confront extremism are actually causing extremism I find grotesque.
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We've made the Middle East more unstable and chaotic than ever before. We left Christians subject to intense persecution and even genocide. We have done nothing to help the Christians, nothing, and we should always be ashamed for that lack of action.
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I think people are often surprised, but I never defined myself as, 'I'm the business guy who has to supersede what my father has done.'
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You know, the '80s, as crazy as the '80s were, that was a surprisingly kind and generous environment that I found myself in as a teenager.
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How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.
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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.
