Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
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I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.
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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
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I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
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Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
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I don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction.
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As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.
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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.
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The financing of my films has always been international.
