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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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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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.
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We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.
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The first fight I saw live, the fighter I was shadowing lost in front of a crowd of forty thousand people. The scale of that is staggering to me. Undergoing that overlap between something very personal and something very public strikes me as both admirable and also somewhat terrifying.
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Good acting should teach people to understand rather than judge.
