Melanie Laurent Quotes
Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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My favourite day is like when it's raining, and I can just lie on the couch.
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We are all human, and mistakes are just around the corner, but experience lets you try to avoid them.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn't. I started getting really excited about politics.
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Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'
