John Scofield Quotes
It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.
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Philly has been dominating things in the division. You aren't going to go anywhere until you can match up with them.
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If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
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My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie.
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It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error.
