Dermot Mulroney Quotes
I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine.
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When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have the pacing, the twists and the character development of fiction films.
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I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.
