Mark Strong Quotes
There have been things over the years that didn't work. 'Body Of Lies,' directed by Ridley Scott, which I did with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio, is a really tight action thriller, but when it opened in the U.S. it was number two to 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua.'
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.
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For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.
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The thing that I am most passionate about would be acting.
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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There have been things over the years that didn't work. 'Body Of Lies,' directed by Ridley Scott, which I did with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio, is a really tight action thriller, but when it opened in the U.S. it was number two to 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua.'
