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 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 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 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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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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Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility are the answer.
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For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
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Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.
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Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
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When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.
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There's always going to be somebody that don't like you. It's life.
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On 'You're fired!': There's a beauty in those two words. When you utter those words, there's very little that can be said. There's a succinctness to those words.
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If I worked in a bank as a teller, there wouldn't be girls lined up outside of where I work when I'm done.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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You are the most important thing in your life. Put yourself at the center of your life.
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As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
