Natalie Wood Quotes
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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You've got to be realistic.
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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I come from a working-class family of seven children.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
