Danny DeVito Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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If you have children and you hear about a child being kidnapped, it makes you really appreciate your own children. It makes you want to spend time with them. But I think anything that shakes you out of your daily patterns in a good thing.
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It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
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We used to do seven shows at day at the Capitol Theater in Washington and the Paramount in New York. The manager said you are doing the young crowd in the morning, the senior citizens in the afternoon, the engaged and married couples in the evening. And he said just sing good songs and everyone would like it. I stayed with that.
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I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.
