Adam Beach Quotes
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
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Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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I've had the chance to work with Christopher Plummer, one of the great stage and film actors, a couple of times, including on 'Prototype,' the first TV movie I ever did. It was science fiction in the Ray Bradbury sense, written by the famous team who created Columbo, Levinson, and Link.
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The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class.
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A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
