Sam Smith Quotes
I started off doing theater as a kid, and I always played a character. I hid behind the script and was told where to go. But to actually perform as yourself is very difficult. I didn't used to enjoy it, but now I do.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
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Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn't exist a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some way that you can't control.
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Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.
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I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.
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So in the drafting process, whenever I would discover something about what my character wanted or didn't want, I immediately just wanted my character to admit to that so I could get to the next, more interesting level in the story.
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I started off doing theater as a kid, and I always played a character. I hid behind the script and was told where to go. But to actually perform as yourself is very difficult. I didn't used to enjoy it, but now I do.
