Sam Rockwell Quotes
I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
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When I walk into a Best Buy, I now see, right from the front door, a giant Apple logo. I see a giant Samsung logo. I see a giant Microsoft Windows logo. And those are stores within a store.
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For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
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Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
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I may be smaller in size, but I'm pretty feisty. I don't give up easily once I get started.
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I definitely have curves. I don't intend on losing them.
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
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We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.
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Clear and cool, clear and cool,By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool.
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I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
