Brother Lawrence Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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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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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.
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Being gay is nothing but another way to live your life.
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The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.
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I'm always late.
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It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting.
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I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.
