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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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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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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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
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Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.
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I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
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Men always like to please women. Women like to please men, too - some women. Some are very good at it.
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We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.
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Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.
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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.
