Jai Courtney Quotes
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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My parents were very protective of me and my brother, so they never talked to us about the situation in our country.
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You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
