Peter Riegert Quotes
Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's job is not to play only people he can identify with.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.
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My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.
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I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.
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Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.
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All you 'Twilight' fans, can't thank you really enough for being so supportive. You're real cool people.
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When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.
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It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
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I think I was affected quite a bit by musical and creative influences that go all the way back to my childhood.
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Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's job is not to play only people he can identify with.
