Jessie Baylin Quotes
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It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.
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If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.
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I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
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You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.
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I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it's interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.
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In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
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People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.
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I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
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A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.
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I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.
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Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women’s cosmic sexual power.
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It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
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This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before...The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of spirit.
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Our faith should be expressed in working toward a better planet for our children and not the selfish, juvenile hope for a better afterlife for ourselves. I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.
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To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina.
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The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
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I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.
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There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.
