Nicholas Ray (Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr) Quotes
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I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
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You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.
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I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.
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I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
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I go on a hunt for things that make sense to me and that I can actively play as an actress.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination
