Jason O'Mara Quotes
I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.
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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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Cuban Americans have little in common with immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and often their priorities don't align. If it seems like Cuban Americans don't have to play by the same rules as everyone else, that's probably because they don't.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Work is what saves you.
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.
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What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!
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I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I have had many different stages of photography - there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I'm in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.
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We reflect on our successes and failures at monthly staff meetings.
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I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.
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Damn everything but the circus.
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I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.
