Sean Harris Quotes
When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
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When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.
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The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.
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The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
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My love life is not a priority.
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Audition is the worst thing. It's like cleaning furniture in a department store.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don't.
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When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.
