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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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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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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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
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He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.
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All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing different and nothing more would have been required had every child of Adam been saved through his blood.
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I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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.
