Douglas Booth Quotes
The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.
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What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.
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I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.
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Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
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Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.
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What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
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You like potato and I like po-tah-to,You like tomato and I like to-mah-to;Potato, po-tah-to, tomato, to-mah-to – Let's call the whole thing off!
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Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the actors in my mind already, so I'm trying to borrow something that's unique to them. The characters have a very natural connection to the actors themselves.
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I don't like to rehearse, and the film-makers that I have been drawn to are interested in provoking something between people rather than nailing a scene in advance.
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Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
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In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.
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The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off.
