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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Even the ears must dance.
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Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't.
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The Holy Spirit has a sanctifying influence. The influence of the Holy Spirit tends towards sanctification, purity and holiness. Expect to live a life of greater purity, sanctification and holiness when under the sweet influence of the Holy Spirit.
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I am glad to be here to create a new history in our industry. I'm very proud of this.
