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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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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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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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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Fighting disparities is very significant.
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My challenge is really to say, 'Can you name me a moral action or a statement that has been made by a believer that couldn't have been made by a non-believer?'
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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.
