Matthew Fox Quotes
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Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.
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I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.
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I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.
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I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.
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I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.
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I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.
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I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.
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I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.
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After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again.
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Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.
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I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.
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I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.
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I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.
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And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.
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But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.
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A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It's just not manly. I don't do anything in life because I love doing it. It's because I want to be good at it.
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Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.
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I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.
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Any time I need to be really physical, and a role requires that, you're kind of viscerally activated by being that physical in it. It takes away the thought process, which is fun.
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I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.
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I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.
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If you look at men's roles for the last thousand years, the desire is fundamental. We want to take care of, provide for, and be of service to... women.
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I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!