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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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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I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.
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I've made the film 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there's really no Western genre over in Asia.
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Yoga powers. To make oneself invisible or small. To become gigantic and reach to the farthest things. To change the course of nature. To place oneself anywhere in space or time. To summon the dead. To exalt senses and perceive inaccessible images, of events on other worlds, in one's deepest inner mind, or in the minds of others.
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I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
