Jonathan Levine Quotes
I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.
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You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.
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I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.
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I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
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Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.
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The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
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It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
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In high school I was president of the Student Council, and I ended up doing a lot of speeches. After you do a few in front of different schools, you get really comfortable talking in front of an audience.
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Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, when I got on stage, mine was playing major league baseball.
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I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
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In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.
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Optimism is the key.
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I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.
