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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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.
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The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
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Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
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I grew up in Cleveland and started doing plays in high school. And I went to the University of Illinois, and I majored in drama. And after school, I went up to Chicago, because I didn't really know anybody in New York or Los Angeles, and I knew people who were doing plays in Chicago.
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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.
