Vincente Minnelli Quotes
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
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You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
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I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.
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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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When I grow up I wanna be like Omar
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Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
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I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow. "When you gave me your shirt to wear that night, I could feel you. I could feel your essence." The world went still. We were standing only inches from each other, not touching. Outside, I could hear the faint murmur of the wind blowing through the trees. "What did it feel like?" he asked in a low voice. "Like...coming home," I admitted.
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I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.
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It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.
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Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
