Stephen Lang Quotes
My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.
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Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.
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I definitely swear more than I should.
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If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
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Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first, they physically isolate us from the outside world and those in it who love us; then they work to divide prisoners from one another by inculcating our distrust in one another.
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I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for the author. That was Robert Wilson, something called 'Network,' which consisted of Wilson sitting on a bunk, the dialogue of the movie 'Network' looped in while a chair on a rope went up and down.
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My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.
