Christian Slater Quotes
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I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.
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I'm an actor; I have an ego that is sometimes disproportionate to the reality of the situation.
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It's very, very difficult because we're living in a world where they invent things in order to hide things from parents. There are these secret creator app guys who make things to intentionally do that, to keep your parents in the dark, and you've really got to work extra-hard to stay on top of it.
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My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.
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I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.
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Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
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I can be going through nothing, but within me, in my head, oh my God! It can be a circus.
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The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.
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I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.
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My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.
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I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.
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Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.
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As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.
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The '80s was a wild decade, and I had some fantastic times. And I did some really fun work.
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Success can be a very difficult thing to deal with.
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My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.' I was, like, 8 years old, playing a kid who had hurt himself on a skateboard. I had, like, three lines. I did the lines, and everybody in the studio applauded - I was immediately hooked after that. I was like, 'This is the life for me.'
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It's great, getting the scripts and working with somebody like Sam Esmail, who is such a great leader.
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I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.
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I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.
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I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.
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I try to stay away from the craft services table on set! That's probably why I am able to still get work in this business: I stay away from junk food.
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It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.
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When I did 'Young Guns II,' I hung out with Emilio and Kiefer, and I once took a trip with Rob Lowe - we jumped trains.
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Some of the characters that I played as a kid were rebellious teenagers, and people would see those performances and project a particular image onto me. And 90 percent of the time, I would do everything I could to live up to that sort of image and be that individual.