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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True courage is the willingness to fully experience whatever you are feeling at the moment. You can attempt to run from your emotions, but eventually they will catch up with you. They will chase you, haunt you, until finally you give up the chase.
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I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family.
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The eight-year-long Algerian war was to bring down six French prime ministers, open the door to de Gaulle - and come close to destroying him, too. The war was the last of the grand-style colonial struggles, but, perhaps more to the point, it was also the first campaign in which poorly equipped Muslim mujahedin licked one of the top Western armies.
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I always concentrate on respecting human beings and their lives and the meaning within their lives, and I believe that is something people around the world can appreciate.
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For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.
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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.
