Rachel Griffiths Quotes
I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.
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I think it's an actor's gift to be as old as people think you are.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.
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There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
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I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
