Jimmy Chin Quotes
I'm a filmmaker. I like to ask the questions, make others feel vulnerable. I don't want to be vulnerable.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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I need to work to feel well.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
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Everybody either hates or loves John Cena; there's no medium. I feel like that I've accomplished something when I get people to cheer for John Cena. I feel like I've done something.
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I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
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I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one feeling at a time. Classical music is by its very nature involved with different kinds of music, constantly transforming one another, which is more akin to the way our experience of life really is.
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I don't know how to thank everyone for all their help.
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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I'm a filmmaker. I like to ask the questions, make others feel vulnerable. I don't want to be vulnerable.
