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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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
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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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.
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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
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People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.
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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.
