Kristoffer Polaha Quotes
The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
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I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.
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It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me; it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.
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The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.
