David Zucker Quotes
It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.
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A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.
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There are two kinds of animals on earth. One kind minds his own business, the other minds other people's business. The former are vegetarians, like cows, sheep and thinking men. The latter are carnivorous, like hawks, tigers and men of action.
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Everytime you fall down or take the wrong path, it isn't wasted. You will surely develop and grow over time.
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Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.
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It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.
