John Philpot Curran Quotes
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski
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There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.
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I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.
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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
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Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
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I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.
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Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
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I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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I've really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with 'Southpaw.' For 'Spotlight,' I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the 'Boston Globe' when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.
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I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
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I'm not a lawyer- I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.
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Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.
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You deserve love and you'll get it.
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It was only in the theatre that I lived.
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When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
