John Grant Quotes
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
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I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.
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I believe that, as actors, we have a phenomenal platform to spread positivity and influence people in the same way.
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.
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I spend a lot of time with my characters.
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I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
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Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
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Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.
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I've never been in the music industry, only acting.
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I've sung other people's music all my life.
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I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.
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Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
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I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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I have women working in high positions. I was one of the first people to put women in charge of big construction jobs. And, you know, I've had a great relationship with women.
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I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.
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A lot of coaches make it harder than it should be. Some are too hard on themselves, obsessing about controlling everything, not trusting their assistants, worrying about time.
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The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that.
