Max von Essen Quotes
'La Vie en Rose' is just about my favorite movie. Marion Cotillard, I'm so desperately obsessed with her work.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
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If you've never been on anything before, they're not going to take a risk and give you a huge job 90 percent of the time. There are exceptions to that. I certainly wasn't an exception to that. I had to pay my dues big time, but I wish somebody would have explained, 'Look, your job is not to get work. Your job is to get better.'
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Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.
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I will never reach the success that my dad has felt.
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As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.
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'La Vie en Rose' is just about my favorite movie. Marion Cotillard, I'm so desperately obsessed with her work.
