Peter Segal Quotes
The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
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Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
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I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.
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The government of Puerto Rico has every right to hold a plebiscite, to consult the people of Puerto Rico regarding their wishes. But the truth is that for a change in the status of Puerto Rico to happen, you need both Congress and Puerto Rico agreeing to it.
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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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One of my favorite things about making horror movies is, the first time you screen them in front of an audience, it's very fun to hear people audibly react to the work you put into a movie. You don't wonder at the end of the movie whether it worked or not.
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I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.
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The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.
