James Remar Quotes
I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living. I hope to do much more of it, so I can contribute my share to the world.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.
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Legacy? I'm a worker in the factory; all we care about is today! A legacy... what a bunch of baloney.
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Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there
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The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.
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Some people want to give money to their children, buy houses, go on a holiday - whatever it is that they want to invest in. This particular journey has been something that I wanted to do most of my life, but there was no real opportunity to do so.
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I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living. I hope to do much more of it, so I can contribute my share to the world.
