Elizabeth McGovern Quotes
The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.
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Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
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As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.
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I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
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I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.
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I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.
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I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.
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People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
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I feel like I need to continuously keep evolving and moving.
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You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
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You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.
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Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.
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I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.
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If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
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In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?
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Words may move, but they're never moving fast enough.
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If you want to make an impact, you need to invest your time every bit as much as your money. And you need to stay involved for the long run. If you can't look at a five-year horizon, you shouldn't get involved.
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The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.
