Jon Brion Quotes
The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them, you know?
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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I know what poverty is.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
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I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
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I look forward to working out every day.
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If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.
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I've been told that I overshare. Sometimes I get criticized for it, but how else would I be if not all of me?
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The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them, you know?
