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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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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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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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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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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It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov -
My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.
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When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
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Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
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Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
