Steven Spielberg Quotes
I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid. I'm not sure I'd want to give them up; a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.
Quotes to Explore
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I have learned to be patient.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid. I'm not sure I'd want to give them up; a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.
