Scott Ellis Quotes
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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I can't stand reading anything that I've said.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
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The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
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Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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There's a couple guys that I'd like to wrestle, but truthfully, I want to wrestle as many guys as I can.
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The knowledge of reality, achieved by means of the complete sensory equipment, must be expressed artistically in terms of a medium which appeals to the memory of all sensory experience - but only through the eye.
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We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.
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Coming in, I had no idea basketball would be a career for me, but I grew 7 inches in college and was fortunate to have a great career in the NBA. The experience taught me about service, what our great country was built on, the sacrifices people have made, how to work together and trust the people around you to accomplish a great goal.
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I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.
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As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
