Peyton Reed Quotes
What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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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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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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I always like to tell a story.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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When I started training martial arts, I learned about respect.
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I always have to be me.
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Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.
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My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
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It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.
