Keith Coogan Quotes
At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
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Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.
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I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
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I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.
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At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.
