Matt Smith Quotes
Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Theater dates very quickly.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
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I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.
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Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.
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When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
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I know not what tomorrow will bring
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Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.
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Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.
