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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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.
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The people who are pushing Jewish supremacism, Zionism – they are absolute evil and they are crazy. All they know is more power, and so there is a real danger, I should say, for Syria , and a danger for Iran at this point.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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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.
