Vir Das Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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Movies are too literal.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.
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I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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In 'Delhi Belly,' I was bald; in other movies I always carried a different look.
