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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If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.
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Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.
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A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.
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I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
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You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.
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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.
