Ivan Reitman Quotes
A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.
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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.
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I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.
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I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?
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I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.
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What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.
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When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
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A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
