Sam Huntington Quotes
I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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You're always cursing, you're always praying and you're always making love. It ain't do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.
