Carice van Houten Quotes
I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov -
My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.
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I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.
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Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For an American playwright to say it doesn't matter is simply to capitulate to the current situation.
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
