Elizabeth Reaser Quotes
I get cast a lot of times in movies with nice people for some reason - because I have a nice face or something.
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.
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I get cast a lot of times in movies with nice people for some reason - because I have a nice face or something.
