Sam Rockwell Quotes
I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.
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My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.
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The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.
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I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary, feral characters with a hankering for the wilderness.
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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
