Chris Klein Quotes
I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?
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I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
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At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
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Education liberates a woman.
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When I got my headshots done, there was this woman screaming at me to blow my lips out. She kept saying, 'You want to be like Scarlett Johansson, don't you?' In the shot, my eyes are popping out; I look terrified. I realised I'd rather not get a job than go through pain to be something I'm not.
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
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I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways. You always think it's going to be fine, the body will repair itself. There will be another chance. But I'm 33 now. The body won't keep repairing itself. You know when you can flick a coin and catch it on your elbow, and flick it up and catch it on the back of your head? And then you can't even catch it with two hands any more. You realise something is wrong.
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For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.
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I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.
