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 we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.
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There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate.
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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When I'm doing the brute work, I do it early in the morning; that's the best time for me to get the stuff down on the page.
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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.
