James Cagney Quotes
You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.
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How high can bitcoin go? The real question is how low can the dollar go?
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I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
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When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'
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You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.
