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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I never wanted to be liked by the majority of people, but there were always some people that I desperately wanted to be liked by. And so you've got to behave in a way that... the way I put it is that if you want to be a real intellectual, you've got to have someone to save you.
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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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I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.
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I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.
