Peter Jurasik Quotes
I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.
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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
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Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
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Some makeup you put on and feel like you're getting pimples by the hour.
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That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.
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Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
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People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.
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How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but really personal and intimate, and we thought guitar would be the perfect instrument for him because he's young and he has an undying spirit and all that stuff and we went on that feeling totally.
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I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
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Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.
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When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.
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I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.
