Jane Campion Quotes
I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
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My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
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I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.
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I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
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And, you know, I don’t want to have to worry that she is going to get sick as the consequence of having, having her lunch.
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I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.
