Beth Henley Quotes
Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.
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I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.
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What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'
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To get nominated, and a lot of people get nominated and say they're glad to be nominated but I wanna win! I want to win!
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Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
