Humphrey Bogart Quotes
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
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Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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'DONALDSON: But on Friday, you were very pessimistic. You said, 'No good,' when someone asked you how things were going.' No, I'm saying even now, if I have to summarize the situation - in one word it's good, in two words, not good.
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People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
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I would love to play a completely negative character if it's backed by a super script.
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For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.
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It felt like a series of coincidences and luck that I ended up getting the part in 'Trainspotting,' but it's been an incredible journey since then. Every now and then, I sit and really think about it, and it blows my mind. I have to stop because I don't want my brain to implode.
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You have to just do music, and you're becoming this entertainer, and so many people require so much of your time for different things, different obligations you have to make money, or just different obligations you have as a person in whatever the situation may be.
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I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.
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I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
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All of my songwriting success happened within a four month time span, and my record label deal happened within the next three months.
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I can't imagine, I can't get in the mind of a wrestling fan who wants to break news that spoils a surprise for somebody. Would you want a surprise spoiled?
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If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours.
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I am the kind of person that if something scares me then I feel like have to do it. That's something I have to conquer. I need to break that fear and go to it.
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The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.
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A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.
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An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
