Robert Zemeckis Quotes
Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work.
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
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I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.
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I'm a hot mess when it comes to any physical activity. My body just pours sweat. Not a lot of people know, but I always have my trusty inhaler with me. When I start to have even a little bit of an asthma attack, I just start dripping sweat. It's my body's emergency system.
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You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.
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As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
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One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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Life is too short to work so hard.
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Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work.
