Jacqueline McKenzie Quotes
No matter how many helicopters there are, when it comes down to it there is the camera and you.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.
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I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
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I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.
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Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.
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I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
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I'm really enjoying being able to do these unhinged comedies and emotional dramas alike. I'm having a lovely time. After shooting a role that requires months of crying, it's quite nice to be able to play something very different.
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Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.
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One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
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Saigon is like all the other great modern cities of the world. It's the mess left from people getting rich.
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O Adolescence, O AdolescenceI wince before thine incandescence . . .When anxious elders swarm aboutCrying 'Where are you going?', thou answerest 'Out,' . . .Strewn! All is lost and nothing foundLord, how thou leavest things around! . . .
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It is later than you think. May it not be true for this Sundial.
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Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? -That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.
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It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
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The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.
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The game is meant to be fun.
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On a detox loft through a Glendale Park over sidewalk chalkSomeone wrote in red, 'start over.'
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It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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No matter how many helicopters there are, when it comes down to it there is the camera and you.
