Oliver Reed Quotes
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.
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Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
