Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes
Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they'd be like, 'Go get that guy Gubler. He'll be in your student film.' I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.
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It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.
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Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
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Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they'd be like, 'Go get that guy Gubler. He'll be in your student film.' I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films.
