James Denton Quotes
I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
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It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.
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In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
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But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.
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I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.
