James Gray Quotes
Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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What is Twitter?! I don't know what Twitter is! Everyone keeps inviting me to Twitter and everyone's going on about twittering and tweeting and this whole thing, and I just don't understand it.
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Remote from cities liv'd a swain,Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;His head was silver'd o'er with age,And long experience made him sage.
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I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.
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Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.
