George Chakiris Quotes
I don't regret 'West Side Story' one bit. It was an incredible movie full of young people with amazing rapport.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski -
I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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'Mixtape' sounds retro! I used to make lots of mixed tapes. It was one of those '90s things - every girl gave them to her best friend. I remember exchanging a few with a boy on a bus when I was 14. I thought he hated me, but in hindsight, maybe he was in love with me, because he gave me the best music.
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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.
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I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.
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When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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I can't always live my life for everybody else.
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We all have something about ourselves that we'd change if we could in a perfect world, be it our body image, our financial status, our relationship, whatever. I wanted to talk about how nobody's exempted from the realities of life and all those things.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.
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Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.
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I don't regret 'West Side Story' one bit. It was an incredible movie full of young people with amazing rapport.
