Mackenzie Rosman Quotes
It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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How long have you been a black man?
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.
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It's never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role. I don't actually mind working out, but it's the diet: I'm half-French, so I love my food, and boiled chicken breast for breakfast is not my idea of a good meal.
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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
