John Cassavetes Quotes
My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.
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I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.
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I am looking for a human.
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The good thing about my part in 'Harry Potter' was that I was pretty well disguised. When I was walking down the street, there was no real recognition factor. Parents would sometimes call their children to come say hello to Mad-Eye, and the kids wouldn't know what they were looking at.
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I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.
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My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.
