Stephen Rea Quotes
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
Quotes to Explore
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.
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The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.
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I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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Unless you have a real passion for making movies, then don't bother. I had to carry energy and light into every meeting, only to be told, 'We don't want you.' I couldn't take it personally. You just have to wait, and live for those moments when the casting director likes you.
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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
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Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
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As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
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I hate my smile - I think I look like an absolute wally when I smile, I really do.
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The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
