John Hillcoat Quotes
I kept hearing about this incredible guy called Tom Hardy. I started watching his work, and I was awestruck - he was amazing.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.
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I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don't pretend to be a connoisseur of films, no.
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There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.
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Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.
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I kept hearing about this incredible guy called Tom Hardy. I started watching his work, and I was awestruck - he was amazing.
