James Frain Quotes
I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, I've never had the sense I was 'making up' a character. It feels more like watching people reveal themselves, ever more deeply, more intimately.
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When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.
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I'm not naive enough to believe it's in our nature to step outside our comfort zones.
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Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.
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I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.
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I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.
