Stephen Moyer (Stephen John Emery) Quotes
When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
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I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.
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I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies.
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
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If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
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I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
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Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.
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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
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I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know there were drama schools until a friend told me.
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You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.
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Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
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The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.
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No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.
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In films, you work for three to six months, and you're out of the character. But for a daily soap, you don't have that luxury. So the character has to be convincing. Otherwise, your mind is not in it, and you're just working for money, which is a good amount in serials. But I want both: good acting and good money.
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When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'
