Scott Pelley Quotes
I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.
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I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.
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'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.
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I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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I relaxed, joined the audience and just enjoyed the show, letting the music do most of the work.
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An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
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I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.
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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.
