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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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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I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.
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I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.
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I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
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We've educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren't. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they're really protecting themselves. Besides, you can't protect children. They know everything.
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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.
