James Murphy Quotes
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
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I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.
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I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
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'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.
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I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he's got some kind of dance that he planned. To me, I just want to change the channel.
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My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.
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I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.
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You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.
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Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'
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I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.
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My label is to play bad guys of Latin origin in American movies. I'm happy with that label. I prefer to play that than to play a city boy. The bad guy is always something very tempting for the audience.
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
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I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing.
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Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.
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Why would you want to remake a movie that has endured for more than 25 years?
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I don't see myself as necessarily a very creative person. I'm a technical guy.
