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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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.
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I told Bill Gates I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow.
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People who had, in the past, suffered from technophobia suffered even more. Others took other positions. Things were not so bad. Things could be worse. Worse things could be imagined. Worse things had been endured and triumphed over, in the past. This was not the worst. The worst was yet to come.
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Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the body but of consciousness. When we think about age differently, then our experience of it changes. We can be physically older but emotionally and psychologically younger. Some of us were in a state of decay in our 20s and are in a state of re-birth in our 60s or 70s. King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
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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.
