James Cromwell Quotes
Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively, but I know how to do the process.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Film has to describe and show.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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The life of an actor can be very enviable.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy...
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To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.
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The world makes you something that you’re not - but you know inside what you are.
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
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I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
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Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively, but I know how to do the process.
