Stephen Moyer (Stephen John Emery) Quotes
Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in 'True Blood' is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.

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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
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I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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Money for me today does not really matter.
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Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
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I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
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I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.
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Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in 'True Blood' is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.