Mary Astor Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.
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Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
