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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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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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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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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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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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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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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The 81 days of detention were a nightmare. I am not unique; it happened to many people in China. Conditions were extreme, created by a system that thinks it is above the law and has become a kind of monstrous machine. There were so many moments when I felt desperate and hopeless. But still, the next morning, I heard the birds singing.
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I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.
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When salaries skyrocket, budgets skyrocket, and then rigor mortis sets in: moviemakers turn out formulaic junk in an effort to hedge their bets.
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The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.
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My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.
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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.
