Sam Rockwell Quotes
It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.
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I don't remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.
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My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
