Jessie Mueller Quotes
As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
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We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things.
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
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'Cloverfield' and 'REC' are great examples of movies that took kind of tired genres, the monster movie and the zombie film, and by filming them in found footage, it was a new perspective. It gives you a whole new take and helps you re-experience that all over again.
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Getting into a space suit and going outside, to me, getting your peripheral vision involved and looking at the Earth was a whole different experience than looking through the window. And it's kind of the same on earth. If you're driving in a car and you see like a beautiful sunset or landscape, it looks so much better if you stop and get out and kind of take it all in and that's kind of what it's like doing a spacewalk.
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As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.
