Paul Dano Quotes
It's hard to talk about acting because I don't think it's quite as explicit as a lot of people might think. And that's probably the best thing about it.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.
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Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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It's hard to talk about acting because I don't think it's quite as explicit as a lot of people might think. And that's probably the best thing about it.
