Joan Severance Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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There is a lot of pressure to top yourself... to come up with a 'Rumours II,' and that seemed like a trap.
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New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get the energy of the city.
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I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.
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My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I don't know why.
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When I made 'Terminator 3,' I learned something about directing actors to behave like robots. And one of the key things I learned is that if an actor tries to play a robot, he or she risks playing it mechanically in a way that makes the performance uninteresting.
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I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.
