Matt Harvey Quotes
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.
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I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
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I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news, is priceless.
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I do standup every week in L.A. at the Laugh Factory and the Improv.
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You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.
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It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
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You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to be with it by the time you are thirty? What color will you be up to by then?
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I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.
