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.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.
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I've had ups and downs, that's just the way football goes. You can't win them all. It's a matter of learning each week and taking everything in. I'm not going to make every play, I'm going to make some mistakes, but as long as I'm not making the costly ones that are going to hurt the team, I'll be all right.
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If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Men are more mechanical when we cook. Women are more attached. They cook it with feelings. From personal experience. The feeling a female chef puts in the food places her way ahead of men chefs.
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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.
