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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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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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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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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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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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.
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In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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My work life is intense. But I love what I do.
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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.
