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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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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Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
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I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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I'm tired of the U.S. getting involved in every country's individual disputes.
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If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
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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.
