Michael Eklund Quotes
That's what acting is all about - it's all about bringing truth from your own life, and putting it into your characters. If you have the advantage of using your own life in your work, that's always the way to go.
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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Peace is its own reward.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.
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Once a champion, always a champion.
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I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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I have sisters who act, and I'd always seen it as their thing. I was never in the school plays like them - I wanted to be a painter.
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By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.
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Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.
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My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me.
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The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
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That's what acting is all about - it's all about bringing truth from your own life, and putting it into your characters. If you have the advantage of using your own life in your work, that's always the way to go.
