Steve Zahn (Steven James Zahn) Quotes
The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
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Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
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What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.
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There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.
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I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look.
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The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.
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What I want people to do is what's healthy for them.
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Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?
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They had the upper hand for a long time out there. We had a tough time getting anything done against their defense. Any time you get into the playoffs it's a huge deal. I feel great for these guys because so many of them haven't experienced it before.
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None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.
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The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.
