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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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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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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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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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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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
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There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of our actions is to go before that court, where process is irrelevant. Good and evil are intents, and intent is without excuse.
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Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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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.
