Christopher Plummer Quotes
The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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In the studio, there's no tiptoeing. As opposed to big, blow-out arguments, there are just lots of little solutions.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.
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So many of the schools are just politically correct mirrors of each other. If you go to this school versus that school, you're just going to get a different version of the same political correctness and liberal indoctrination.
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Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.
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The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.
