Eric Ladin Quotes
To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see.
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Obviously, not the biggest guy in stature. Straight-line speed wasn't my forte either. But I play very fast because I know the game. I take proper angles and know all my assignments.
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Real music to me is real; it's what you feel.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.
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To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.
