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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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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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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I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.
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Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.
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I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
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I don't understand why people don't have a f***ing sense of humor. Always assume that I'm being sarcastic.
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The most important thing for me is to win the fight and not what people are going to say.
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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.
