Scott Porter Quotes
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective?
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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When we were kids, my favorite thing was coming to upstate New York where my family is from and hanging out with my grandparents' friends pre-Internet and them asking if we had stores or 'Do you have TV in Alaska?'
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I was raised around music.
