Peter Finch Quotes
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I am a just man.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.
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Where did you learn your charm—the gulag?
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Every person I see has a story to tell.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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Good acting should teach people to understand rather than judge.
