Janet Suzman Quotes

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

Janet Suzman

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• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  

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• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

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• When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'

  

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• Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

  

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• I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

  

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• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

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• It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

  

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• No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.

  

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• He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

  

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• I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

  

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• My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.

  

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• The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

  

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• After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she's gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons admitted that he is really, really, really, really gay.

  

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• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

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• My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Mother
  • Agnostic
  • Synagogue