Darren Star Quotes
I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see actors and see what that talent is... it wasn't me.
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.
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I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life growing up. My father was very much adamant that we would learn about our culture. It's a very rich culture to be a part of since it has such a great history behind it. I definitely carry that in my job, and I am very passionate.
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For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don’t want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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Above all, what I learned from my Sensei was how to wait. I believe I learned the meaning of waiting on one foot. If I understand anything in this life, it is how to wait. It is not an answer. But for me it is everything.
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I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see actors and see what that talent is... it wasn't me.
