Hiroyuki Sanada Quotes
I am glad to be here to create a new history in our industry. I'm very proud of this.
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Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.
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One cannot reduce terror by holding over the world the threat of what it most fears.
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What is Bresson's genre? He doesn't have one. Bresson is Bresson. He is a genre in himself. Antonioni, Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa, Dovzhenko, Vigo, Mizoguchi, Bunuel - each is identified with himself. The very concept of genre is as cold as the tomb. And is Chaplin - comedy? No: he is Chaplin, pure and simple; a unique phenomenon, never to be repeated.
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The future is as bright as the promise of God.
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I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.
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Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting.
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Most of my best friends ended up being women, most notably my wife, and I learn a lot by simply listening.
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I am glad to be here to create a new history in our industry. I'm very proud of this.
