Martin Yan Quotes
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Women drive box office.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.
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At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.
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I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.
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I enjoy the quiet life.
