Eugenio Derbez Quotes
Yes, everyone thought I was crazy when I moved to the U.S. after having had a very successful career in Mexico. It was like Adam Sandler turning his back on Hollywood and going to China to start all over.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.
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Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
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Globalization is a fact of economic life.
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I love the mix of people who hang out at nightclubs now. Their individuality is an inspiration to me. The music they listen to, the clothes they wear and the way they wear them defines a street style that I love.
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My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.
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My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.
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Hatred in your heart for others is always weakness.
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Yes, everyone thought I was crazy when I moved to the U.S. after having had a very successful career in Mexico. It was like Adam Sandler turning his back on Hollywood and going to China to start all over.
