Evan Parker Quotes
I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.
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That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever.
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
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It's in this book I was reading. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.
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Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
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When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
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Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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My character Preet in 'Fanaah' had a very distinctive appearance: loud make-up and dramatic clothes.
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I don't like it when you look too styled and wear one designer from head to toe.
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I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.
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I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.
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Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.
