Stephen Dorff (Stephen Hartley Dorff Jr.) Quotes
It was pretty surreal to be auditioning as a kid, and I'd get close to these actors that I really respected. I remember River Phoenix in particular. I met him at an audition hall or something.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.
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Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.
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The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
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I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.
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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
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In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.
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I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.
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It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.
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Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.
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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love.
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I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.
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I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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A disciple who grows spiritually will have a growing desire to be a witness and reach out to those who are lost.
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It was pretty surreal to be auditioning as a kid, and I'd get close to these actors that I really respected. I remember River Phoenix in particular. I met him at an audition hall or something.
