Rutger Hauer Quotes
Nobody's seen all my work. No one. No one in the world has seen all my movies. Some things just never came out... some things may still come out.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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Listen: I like my bikinis very small, and I also like, uh, nude-colored bikinis because people double-take - they think I'm naked on the beach.
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By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
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I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
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I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
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Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
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A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.
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You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.
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Anna Paquin is marvelous, and she brings so much experience to the table.
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I was completely shocked that Prince would even know my name.
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I like any song that can tell a story that people can relate to.
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My problem is with intimacy. That's where I have my biggest problems.
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We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
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You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.
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Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.
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The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
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90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.
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Nobody's seen all my work. No one. No one in the world has seen all my movies. Some things just never came out... some things may still come out.
