Lajos Egri Quotes
Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
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I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just about to get it going. I had some really great actors attached, and New Line was going to make the movie, and 9/11 happened. And it was over. By September 12, it was over. And rightfully so. I understood that.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
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Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.
