Matthew Lillard Quotes
Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.
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If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.
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I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he seems completely the most inhuman and infallible in costume. Psychologically he's one of the most complicated in both his strengths and his weaknesses. For me, one of his great strengths and weaknesses is that confidence. His emotional self-protection is one of the things that makes him heroic and sacrificing; he doesn't have a personal life. He sacrifices those to be the best hero he can be.
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Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.
