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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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
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Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.
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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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I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.
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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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Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
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When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
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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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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
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To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.
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The need for air transport is real, and it's not going to change. The key is to have the right business model and have the right initiatives, in my view, to succeed.
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I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up.
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My job requires me to always be on. I'm always getting my makeup done for a shoot.
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I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.
