Stephen Rea Quotes
You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.
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I have a very small public.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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Most of the cricketers are doing side businesses apart from playing the sport, so why should I be left behind. I feel there is a lot of money in making films, and since Punjabi cinema is doing good, this is a lucrative option for me.
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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Fashion really is women's liberation in a lot of ways. Look at how many women in this country are depressed about how they look and how they think they have to look! It's really sad. And it's not about money.
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They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.
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I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.
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I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
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Asset managers have different approaches, and I don't wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many ways one can attempt to reduce risk, improve performance, lower drawdowns and reduce volatility.
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If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.
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The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.
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No one knows me in the States because the movies have been released in such an awkward, irregular fashion, all by different distributors. There is no continuity.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.
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I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.
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My interest is in experience that is wordless and silent, and in the fact that this experience can be expressed for me in art work which is also wordless and silent.
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South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. They have a lot of sporting events that have made it more popular there. They have motocross and rave celebrations, and they're embracing it as a youth culture thing.
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My most defining moment was the death of my mother.
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The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which we've done.
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You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.
