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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There are different reasons to make movies.
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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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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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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 never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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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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My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
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Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.
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Her mind is a haunted house.
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I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
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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.
