Mel Rodriguez Quotes
My life could have easily gone another way. But I had this one teacher who gave me direction and got me into performing. She got me into touring with an educational play called 'The Inner Circle' along with Pedro Zamora from MTV's 'The Real World.'
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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TV's been good to me.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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More than comparing with somebody else, I'd prefer comparing my own work from film to film.
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Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.
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My life could have easily gone another way. But I had this one teacher who gave me direction and got me into performing. She got me into touring with an educational play called 'The Inner Circle' along with Pedro Zamora from MTV's 'The Real World.'
