John Lloyd Quotes
You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.
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To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don't see another big thing coming.
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I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.
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My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.
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You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?
