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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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
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Learning to live with not meeting other people's expectations has been extremely freeing and is the only gift I wish to pass on to any future offspring.
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You have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got. Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to do with me".
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I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!
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I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.
