Mark Pontius Quotes
Playing for the first time in Russia was wonderful, and it's a huge perk of the job to get to experience those different cultures.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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Andy Samberg and Chelsea Peretti went to kindergarten together. For real.
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Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
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I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.
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'Enchanted' illustrates how impractical fairy-tale ideals are in the World As We Know It, and yet, Giselle's unabashed optimism always seems to magically find its time and place.
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I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.
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Playing for the first time in Russia was wonderful, and it's a huge perk of the job to get to experience those different cultures.
