Danny Boyle Quotes
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
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Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
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I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I have no new voices - they've all been used.
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It's a terrible poison, writing.
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My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.
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I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.
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A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.
