Preston Sturges Quotes
You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
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Psychiatry causes so much death.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
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The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.
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They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.
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I love being a part of the whole journey of a film being made.
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You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
