James Marsden Quotes
One of the big struggles for an actor is sometimes you have to take work that you don't necessarily want to do so you can pay rent.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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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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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
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SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
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I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.
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I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.
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I think especially boys have a competitive streak when they're 12.
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One of the big struggles for an actor is sometimes you have to take work that you don't necessarily want to do so you can pay rent.
