John McDonald Quotes
You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
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The key is that when we disagree, we really hear the other one out and agree that there is a more elegant solution than one of us 'winning.'
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We should not go to the people and say, 'Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our presence, to teach you our science, to show you your errors, your lack of culture, your ignorance of elementary things.' We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn at that great source of wisdom that is the people.
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As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!
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Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for.
