John DiMaggio Quotes
Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.
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I think, with 'Pride,' I always knew that was something amazing because of the people who were in it and the story and the way it was written and who was directing. Anyone in that cast knew it was special.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.
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Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
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I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.
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I'm stunned that people keep asking me to play characters I didn't expect to play.
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Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
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I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.
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Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.
