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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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores 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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I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
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I want to love life.
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We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
