Douglas Hodge Quotes
I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie. They mythologise their own city. You're forever trying to get down streets that have been blocked off because of shooting. In London, they don't put up with it; they're grumpy.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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Let's just focus on unity and love.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
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I have intentionally not pursued musical theater.
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Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.
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When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.
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Empathy for women is an attribute of masculinity. When men play the protector role they are trying to save a woman from grief or pain. If they had no glimpse of her grief or pain, they wouldn’t know when to protect.
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Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.
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I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie. They mythologise their own city. You're forever trying to get down streets that have been blocked off because of shooting. In London, they don't put up with it; they're grumpy.
