George Carey Quotes
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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I think 'Cyrus' has a lot of fat in it. It was a $7 million movie. If you're going to make a movie with famous people, you don't necessarily need to spend 7 million dollars. Make it for less than that, and you'll be able to sell it and make a ton more than that, and everybody shares the profits.
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Keep on listening & tapping your feet.
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People I get the most star-struck by are people I've sort of grown up with watching. So, for example, working with Debby Ryan, when I first met her, I was a bit nervous and a bit star-struck because I had grown up watching her TV shows on the Disney Channel.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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My parents were the exact opposite of stage parents. They did everything in their power to keep it from happening. But it was going to happen no matter what. I was like, 'Thanks for raising me, but I'm going to take it from here.'
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I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.
