John Cassavetes Quotes
I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever, however it's coming down, you know. If you're getting your butt kicked - you still gotta do what you gotta be doing.
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You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
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I'm a Michael Bay fanatic.
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I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.
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My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.
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I never read tabloids, I never buy books or go on Perez Hilton, and I never ever watch the news.
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Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.
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I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.
