Jennifer Tilly Quotes
If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you're never really afraid for her because you know she's not going to die.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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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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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.
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If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
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I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
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My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house... I had a little attitude.
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If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you're never really afraid for her because you know she's not going to die.
