Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes
'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. So, I was jumping into it, and that was pretty grueling.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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There is a huge opportunity in the intermarriage trend. These are people who, if you show them how vital the community is and how great it is to raise kids Jewish, these people are going to raise their kids Jewish. Ultimately, that's all that matters.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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I always have ice cream in the house. I have a bowl of it, and then a bit more. One of the greatest pleasures in my life is going back and getting a second half-bowl. The first bowl is just the prelude.
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The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to ecstasy. Open to the spirit, and you will be transformed.
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Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.
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I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.
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What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.
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'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. So, I was jumping into it, and that was pretty grueling.
