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 made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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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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The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.
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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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Drugs scared me.
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A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it.
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Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
