Preity Zinta Quotes
It's not that acting was something I'd always wanted to do. I had no formal training; I'd never really imagined I'd be an actress. Business was something that had always been in my mind, but when I got into acting, I learned everything on set, and for me at that point, I wanted to excel at what I did.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I got a big mouth.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.
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I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.
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I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.
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Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.
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It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.
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I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
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It's not that acting was something I'd always wanted to do. I had no formal training; I'd never really imagined I'd be an actress. Business was something that had always been in my mind, but when I got into acting, I learned everything on set, and for me at that point, I wanted to excel at what I did.
