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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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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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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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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No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kind of person I am because I'm so competitive, but it's also good, because I am competitive, so it kind of kicks you in the butt.
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If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
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I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
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I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a disruptive endeavor - and it's one that I enjoy extremely.
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I used to be on 'The Bold & The Beautiful'; that character, Bridget Forrester, is dear to my heart, and of course, the reruns of that you can see.
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
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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.
