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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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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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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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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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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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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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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All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'
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I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.
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The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting.
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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.
