Mark Strong Quotes
When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.
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Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
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In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
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At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at their best, they provide meaty insights on just about every stock imaginable.
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I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
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I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.
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People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.
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There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
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Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.
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Take the job that you would take if you were independently wealthy.
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Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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We should go and ask the princess for help. She seems very nice, and she’s much too beautiful to be unkind.
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'NOTA', for his film Lucy, as quoted in 'Luc Besson's Statement Of Intent For 'Lucy' Compares The Film To '2001,' 'Inception' & 'Leon The Professional'' by Kevin Jagernauth, in Indiewire (28 July 2014)
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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I shall never stop fighting. I mean this country to survive, to prosper and to be free...I haven't fought the destructive forces of socialism for more than twenty years in order to stop now, when the critical phase of the struggle is upon us.
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I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.
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I've written a couple of scripts. Actually, a pilot. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say, but it's a comedy about three young men in New York City, one of whom may or may not be a romantic like me.
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The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.
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We love being told good stories, and we love telling good stories, and all of our energy and our effort and our thought and our passion goes into telling the best story that we can.
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When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.
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When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.
