Stephen Rea Quotes
If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
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The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.
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The summer before I started college, my parents walked everywhere instead of taking the bus. Once a week, they would hand over $10 to the university housing office, a deposit so I could move into the dorms in the fall.
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You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.
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[On refusing to do nude movie scenes:] There are certain people who should know what you look like naked. I just don't think your high-school algebra teacher should be one of them.
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I think that books are fundamentally educational.
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If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
