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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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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The war of choice in Iraq could never have gained the congressional support it got without the psychological linkage between the shock of 9/11 and the postulated existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
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Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
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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.
