Eugenio Derbez Quotes
I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.
Quotes to Explore
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.
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'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.
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When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
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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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I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.
