Jose Padilha Quotes
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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Actors are a race.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.
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Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something gets too popular too fast before I can get on it, I just get really annoyed. Everybody tells me I'm an idiot; it's supposed to be amazing. I saw some of the second season; I loved it, but I was just detached. I didn't get into it.
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You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
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It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I had no idea that it would be popular.
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Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.
