Martin Henderson Quotes
I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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It's so funny to get a call from Dustin Hoffman because he has that great voice.
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Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people.
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Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.
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The actors work out how to create the show with me during the rehearsals. They owe it to themselves and each other to maintain that contract regardless of what the critics say.
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I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.
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I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants.
