Rutger Hauer Quotes

I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

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• We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

  Lance Reddick
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• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
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• My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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• The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

  

  Pat Barker
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• I gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.

  

  Garth Stein
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• I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
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• Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.

  

  Owain Yeoman
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• I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

  

  Flavor Flav
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• I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

  

  Natalie Portman
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• I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

  

  Harland Williams
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• Canada's a small market. I think sometimes we do too much of supporting American stories in Hollywood and not enough supporting our own.

  

  Mena Massoud
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• Everyone should dance more. Everyone should walk more.

  

  Keri Russell
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• It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

  

  Bill Watterson
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• I love Twitter in particular because it allows me to grow and see how people feel about the decisions I make. My followers, they're always pretty honest with me. I love the honesty I get. I also find motivation in it.

  

  Jon Jones
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• I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

  

  Rutger Hauer
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