Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.
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Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.
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The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
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A role I grew up with and always loved was James Bond. I'd even say, in some ways, that he served as a creative role model for me as a kid in terms of roles I would want to play. I watched all of the movies growing up with my dad, so to be Bond himself would, without a doubt, be my dream role.
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I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.
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War creates peace like hate creates love.
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No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.
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There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.
