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 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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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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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.
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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.
