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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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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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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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 took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.
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So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.
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We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.
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It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.
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Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?
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I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.
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When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.
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If you worry too much about anything, you end up making bad movies.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.
