David Johansen Quotes
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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Yes, I certainly look for strong characters - whether that means they're strong in their vulnerability or strong in the way they might be attractive to lots of blokes.
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The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
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I don't consider myself as a glamour diva. If you get to know me, you will see that I am so dorky and weird.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.
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There's a reason why I use film. It's because it's the best representation of how our eyes work. I really believe that. I think it's better than digital.
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I would never heckle someone. That's why I think I'm so interested in someone that would.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Test cricket is for batsmen, not bowlers. Bowlers are like slaves,' Kapil Dev.
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True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.
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I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.
