Stephen Moyer (Stephen John Emery) Quotes
There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.
Quotes to Explore
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Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.
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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
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I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
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Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
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Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.
