Michael Pitt Quotes
I think that it's important not to take acting too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
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With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
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Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
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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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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
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If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?
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I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain.
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I think style is both something that you have naturally and something you need to study. The most important thing is to find your personal style, your personal difference and choose things that suit you best and bring out your personal attributes.
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The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone.
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The ultimate fun is doing nothing. I like doing nothing with people I like - maybe just eating, hanging out and talking.
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We came into this week thinking this was going to be a really tough game, ... We knew they'd be excited, which they were, and our plan was to take it to them early. That is what we did.
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I think that it's important not to take acting too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.
