Martin McDonagh Quotes
I loved 'The Master' a lot. I'm not going to get to work with Daniel Day-Lewis, but Joaquin Phoenix is one of the best around, I think.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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Winning excuses everything.
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'I'm not - the terrific guy you keep telling me about. I'm not made of sugar and spice and everything nice. I'm made of rats and snails and puppy-dogs tails. I lie sometimes. I have broken people's hearts. I'm looking for love, I'll admit that, but now that it's here in abundance, I'm afraid of commitment and I want you, please, to leave me.'
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All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.
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But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.
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Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.
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These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
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I loved 'The Master' a lot. I'm not going to get to work with Daniel Day-Lewis, but Joaquin Phoenix is one of the best around, I think.
