Bill Condon Quotes
I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama.
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I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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I probably have a club in my hands 360 days a year, one way or another, playing with friends or just fiddling around or hitting balls.
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I would say there is probably a little bit of me in each character. But Purrscilla is a lot like me because she is very into glam and glitz and jewelry and everything very girly. And some of the jewelry in the illustration is even my own jewelry. But I'm not a cat fan - that's the only thing! I'm a dog person.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama.
