Sharlto Copley Quotes
I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.
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Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.
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All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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Three tomatoes are walking down the street-a poppa tomato, a mamma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him and says, Catch up.
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A lot of times the best trailers are for complete dogshit movies. It's a shame that people are beyond quick to judge things these days. Lots of great stuff gets lost that way.
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If you want the (final bill) to succeed, you better keep ANWR out.
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It was a wonderful thing to see the guys again.
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Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
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To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.
