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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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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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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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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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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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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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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There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.
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War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
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I've really got no complaints.
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A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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.
