Donald Freed Quotes
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I'm tired of living in a police state.
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When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.
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By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
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I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.
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I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I'm like, 'Oh. Things aren't quite as good.'
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My first debate in high school--"Resolved: Girls are no good"--and I won!
