Mark Rydell Quotes
It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
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I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
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I'd rather die than let somebody get the better of me.
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
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Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.
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The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.
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President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
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The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.
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The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.
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It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.