Michael Pitt Quotes

Anything that you as an actor can change about yourself for a part is helpful.

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• Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Couple
  • Years

• My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Woman

• The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Wind
  • Difficult
  • Very

• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Girl
  • Red
  • Hot

• No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Free
  • Ego
  • Actions

• I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Doing
  • Directing
  • Producing

• The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Friend
  • Temptation
  • Meeting

• The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Done
  • Want
  • Find

• I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Friend
  • Smell
  • Vegetarian

• Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Sometimes
  • Knows
  • Actors

• I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Done
  • Character
  • Pretty

• When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Up
  • Like
  • Grow Up

• Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Instruments
  • Attack

• From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Happiness
  • Concentration

• I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Life
  • Think
  • Interaction

• A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

  

  V. Vale Blue Cheer
  • True
  • Eye
  • Unique

• Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Nature
  • Secret
  • Angels

• I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.

  

  Noel Clarke
  • Words
  • Freedom
  • Actors

• I love going to Cons. It such a great way to connect with my fans and reconnect with my fellow actors.

  

  Rekha Sharma
  • Actors
  • Fans
  • Connect

• Anything that you as an actor can change about yourself for a part is helpful.

  

  Michael Pitt
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