Jean-Paul Belmondo Quotes
I had fun doing both types of roles. Both are good. One day you laugh, and the next day you cry. That's how it is.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
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The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master.
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As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.
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'A Chorus Line' never dies; it just keeps opening doors and giving back to me - but there was a time when I considered it an albatross around my neck.
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I was on a TV show about dancers for two and a half seasons called 'Bunheads' on ABC Family, and that was really fun for me because I'm a dancer in a real life.
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I had fun doing both types of roles. Both are good. One day you laugh, and the next day you cry. That's how it is.
