Scott Speedman Quotes
I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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My record speaks for itself.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.
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Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make them harder to crash.
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What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
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Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.
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I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.
