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I don't think you can get away with putting your talents in a toilet bowl and not having them flushed away. Forever. There is a level of murder of one's soul and of the culture that they're supposed to be feeding vitamins to.
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I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
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I think we all have light and dark inside us.
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There is no re-inventing the wheel.
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What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
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Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
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When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.
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And dressed her Madonna up like a turkey. After I read that stuff, I thought long and hard about what one would do to dress someone up like a turkey. And I nailed it. I figured you've got to get out the Playtex glove, blow it up and put the glove over the head.
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At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.
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When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and go, 'What the f**k was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?' Which is a fantastically strong humiliation in the best sense. It can make somebody very bitter and very hard and closed off, but I find it does the opposite to me.
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I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.
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I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.
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When everything gets answered, it's fake.
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Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.
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It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling.
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I have a regret that the entire discussion with El Chapo... ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the War on Drugs.
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I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.
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All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.
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There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.
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I am a Justin Timberlake fan.
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Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.
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I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.
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Women are the best. The toughest. The bane of my existence. And I'll forever fall for it.
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The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.
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