Penelope Cruz Quotes
I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.
Quotes to Explore
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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The most important thing is to not waste your money.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.
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After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
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I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.
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Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.
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One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.
