Olivier Martinez Quotes
I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines - perfectly eccentric - to walk out the door.
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People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.
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I need to work to feel well.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.
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There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.
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I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like '21 Jump Street.' I cannot stop watching that movie. Really funny, really extreme comedies are definitely my favorite.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.
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I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
