Scott Porter Quotes
As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum. And whether it's the audience or the industry, you end up getting pigeonholed as one thing. So for people to see I can be funny and stay in shape is a bit of a weight off my shoulders.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.
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Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.
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You don't really know who you're going to fall in love with at what time in their life. They can be the worst off they've ever been in their life, but you can't help who you fall in love with. That's part of the excitement of life - new people, new experiences.
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People in L.A. think I'm so posh. They think I live in 'Downton Abbey.'
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum. And whether it's the audience or the industry, you end up getting pigeonholed as one thing. So for people to see I can be funny and stay in shape is a bit of a weight off my shoulders.
