Peter Bart Quotes
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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I don't think I'm a good dancer.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.
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For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
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What challenges me is this - I want to walk out of a film with the experience of having done a film, not with a feeling that I have sleepwalked through it.
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I've been fortunate enough in my career that I haven't been typecast at all.
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I have a Manhattan club chair in dark espresso leather that I always read in. It's a place where I can contemplate other people's thoughts and stir my imagination.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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We're not alt-right, and we're not old-school, National-Review-boring Right - we're aggressive. We're in a meme world - we're in a world where you have to be catchy, punchy.
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That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
