Jennifer Westfeldt Quotes
As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I'm cranky.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
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I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.
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No action is without its side effects.
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I am happy with what I've done.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics.
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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I feel like if they want us to dress a certain way, they should pay for our clothes. It's just tough, man, knowing that all of a sudden you have to have a dress code out of nowhere. I don't think that's going to help the image of the league at all. ... It kind of makes it fake. The whole thing is fake.
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As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.
