George C. Wolfe Quotes
Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And that's what allows them to give the performance that you want to nurture inside of them and what you think they're capable of giving.
Quotes to Explore
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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I research every part thoroughly. I talk it out with my actor friends, but then I throw it all away when I get to the set. You have to be spontaneous.
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Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.
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Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
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My relationship with Alan Shatter is a professional relationship: obviously worked with him over the years, complimented him for his work as a reforming minister, and move on.
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Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And that's what allows them to give the performance that you want to nurture inside of them and what you think they're capable of giving.
