Simon Baker Quotes
When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
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I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
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At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
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Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
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My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
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You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.
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When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.
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I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.
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I loved editing, and being a cookbook editor is a really a great job.
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If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.
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There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.
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It's always the last one because it's so present in your body. I liked Scream of the Banshee because it was a real challenge. I thought, "How am I going to pull off this character?" But, I also thought, "Oh, man, I'm going to go for it." He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
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When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.
