Christine Baranski Quotes
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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Wild flowers grow where they will.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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With wrestling, you can't describe how that connection with an audience happens. I can't teach anybody how that happens. The bad things that have happened to me in WWE have made that connection stronger.
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People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.
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Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.
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I grew up in a working class family. People thought I might go work at a mill. My mom wanted me to learn how to lay carpet because she was concerned about my future. Nobody had high hopes for me. But I was a hustler.
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I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor
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I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
