Michael Pitt Quotes
I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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Hardware ultimately is a scale game, and it's a differentiation game. If you are literally selling products that are completely undifferentiated, like x86 servers, why would anybody pay you for that?
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
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I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
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People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
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I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.
