John Barrymore Quotes
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
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I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
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I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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I spend a lot of time with my characters.
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I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.
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I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.
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A view of the unseemly actions of drunken men is the most effectual dissuasive from wine.
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Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
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How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'
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Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
