Billy Campbell Quotes
I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
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I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.
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The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.
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I recalled the ants I had watched as a child on the farm, building their hills one grain of sand at a time, only to have them senselessly destroyed in an instant by a passing foot. I'd pieced my life together the same way, slowly and agonizingly. Would it, too, be kicked callously into dust?
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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.
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A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.
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I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.
