Nicholas Stoller Quotes
All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
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If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.
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I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I could go speak to people for the next three years every day if I wanted to, but I'm not going to make my child do that.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.
