David Storey Quotes
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
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Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.
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Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I played Killearn, who was this sort of greasy fallen-angel character who was voyeuristic and sleazy and really unpleasant. It was a great role, but I didn't especially enjoy living with this awful man for the length of time it took to make the movie.
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If I have got a feeling or emotion, I just express it as it comes. I am not good at filtering!
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Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor.
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Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
