Sal Mineo Quotes
One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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My philosophy is to be me.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
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Africa has a time-honored and brilliant civilization.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
