Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes
It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I'm very open-minded.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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America is inundated with polls. We need a term for being swamped with polls. I would say 'poll-arized,' but that's already in use to describe our political divisions.
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You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.
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I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.
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I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By that, I mean a hero who is believed by all to be a villain but who, in the end, is introduced as a man of great honor with a long list of decorations.
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I may get married later or may never get married. But I want babies, so I'll have to get married. I want fat, cute babies. Every girl has to think about it at some point. For me, marriage is about family, and that's why I find it necessary. Till then, it's normal to have a partner and do your own thing.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
