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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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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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 don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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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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Hopefully in the future, it may open up to the outside, but right now we're keeping it in house.
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You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.
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... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!
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Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.
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Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.
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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.
