Chris Matthews Quotes
If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.
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I feed off the crowd a lot. I love to see their faces, singing the words. I feed off their emotions. I want to give that back to them. I want God to speak through me to the crowd. I want to get them excited about their faith. I always want to give it my heart and soul.
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If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.
