Michael Arad Quotes
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
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It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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I am by trade a designer, and I did Fine Art for my degree.
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I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
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I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.
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I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.
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I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.
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I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.
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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
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I think there's an opportunity for a couple of them for sure, maybe more depending upon the situation, but it's too early to say which ones. It's a pretty competitive fight. And that doesn't mean the older guys are just going to walk into spots. I remind them all the time - you got to earn everything you get. And that's what made our team good last year, is guys really competed for opportunities and understood their roles.
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I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.
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I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.
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I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.
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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
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I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.
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But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
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I had a dual role: designer and advocate.
