Mariska Hargitay Quotes
I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
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Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
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No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
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You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.
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I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.
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The priests had been told that I had dared to say that the moon was the world I came from and that their world was only a moon. They believed that constituted an adequately just pretext to condemn me to drowning, which was their way of exterminating atheists.
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Picket lines and picket signs Don't punish me with brutality Talk to me, so you can see Oh, what's going on What's going on.
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.
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First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.
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I've studied live shows and artists for so long. I got the tour documentaries and all that and watched them. I love a show. I love an artist that can do all of it.
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I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage I'm that confident and that cocky, because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.
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I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.
