David Henry Hwang Quotes
We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.
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Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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We cannot rely on imported fuels forever, and we aim to replace traditional oil and gas boiler systems with products which are much more efficient.
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If you look at the Disney Villains, I think you'll find that they do have mass appeal in some way, and it usually has to do with a voice quality that also matches very well with the animation.
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We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
