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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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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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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When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.
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If my mother gets help from it, then I will enter politics.
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My family didn't film anything. But then you look deeper and realize, maybe there are photographs, there are things. It's also context: You give something a context, and suddenly it becomes really deep or meaningful footage.
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By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We The Replacements stopped rehearsing. We stopped getting together and rehearsing. We'd perform, and that would take it all out of us. Then we'd be done touring and we'd be sick of each other. We'd never call each other up and hang out.
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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.
