Dee Wallace Quotes
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I would love to be a role model.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
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I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.
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I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.
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I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.
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My character in 'OK OK' has a lot of attitude, and it is an interesting one.
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I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.
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I was reading this story about these people who suffered from brain injuries, and then their behavior changed kind of drastically afterward, and I just said to myself, 'There's no way that that can possibly be true.'
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Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
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Don't swim up stream, baby. The future was right where you were. 23.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And if it's for TV, I'll ask myself, 'Is it a show that I'd watch?' If it's a play or movie, I'll want to know if there's a good director attached.
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My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
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The public makes a hit.
