Scott Speedman Quotes
Every movie is different. Sometimes with movies, there are roles you should just leave alone and relax with and keep it light. And there are other ones where you want to work with an acting coach and really delve in there.
Quotes to Explore
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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If Luna Marie is at the park, my child is not happy unless she's on the highest bar of the jungle gym or the tallest branch of a tree or jumping over the biggest, deepest hole.
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When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.
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To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.
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If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
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Fans want to make sure that they see things resolved, they want to get some closure, a great ending. I think they're going to get that.
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Every movie is different. Sometimes with movies, there are roles you should just leave alone and relax with and keep it light. And there are other ones where you want to work with an acting coach and really delve in there.
