Michael Pitt Quotes
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
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Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
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I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.
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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
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I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.
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Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
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I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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The great thing about Showtime is that they really give us leeway and the range to explore the real dark side of stuff.
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In real everyday life, I don't walk around feeling fat, and if on TV I'm considered fat, honestly, I kind of like it, because I'm a big advocate of positive unique representations of women in media. And so I like how I'm able to represent a curvier body and still be beautiful.
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Theatre gives me a different high.
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My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
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On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.
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"Straight Edge" was a song about my life. There was no structure, no premise as if I was forming a club. There were no tenets. I mean I wrote a song called "Straight Edge," I'll take that, but the song was about my life the way I wanted to live it.
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As a general rule, whatever Europe is now doing, we should do the opposite - for our very survival in an increasingly scary world.
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I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
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Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
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I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.
