Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don't want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that's coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.
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Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.
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Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
