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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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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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 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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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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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.
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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
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I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.
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I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.
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I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.
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You can shave your head, but I've had to gain a lot of weight for movies, I've had to drop weight really fast for movies. I've had to learn accents or embody physical behaviors or twitches and things like that. And sometimes you take to some things easily and sometimes not. That's the challenge of the job.
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He can be so rude to people that sometimes you just want to punch his lights out.
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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.
