Eugenio Derbez Quotes
Drama is more universal. We all cry about the same stuff. But comedy is very specific: It depends on where you were born, how old you are, your social-economic status. It's very complicated to make people laugh.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
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Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night!
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When I get mean, I get mean.
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I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
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Drama is more universal. We all cry about the same stuff. But comedy is very specific: It depends on where you were born, how old you are, your social-economic status. It's very complicated to make people laugh.
