Michael Pitt Quotes

I think it's very dangerous for an actor to take shooting too seriously because I think it could really damage you if you do that.

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• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

  

  Barney Frank
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• I chose the Xperia based on its functions. Apart from using the phone to communicate, I also use it to take pictures. The image quality with this cell phone is great.

  

  Okky Madasari
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• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

  

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• A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• I've never been strong with my time-management skills.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
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• When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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  • Look
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• The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
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• It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
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• But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

  

  Kevin Kline
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• I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• Hey, Mikey? You get her hurt and I'll end you." "You let anything happen to Eve and I'll do the same," Michael said. He'd just finished kissing Eve, too. "While you're at it, don't get yourself killed, either, bro." "Ditto. And don't kiss me.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
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• Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I was glad I did, except when I was wandering around in my real life with this big red Afro. I looked like Ronald McDonald.

  

  Ben Affleck
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• Mustafa Kemal's government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true, I don't remember the exact words, but what he said was that I am a dictator so that there will never again be a dictator in Turkey, and I think that was right. He felt that there were certain changes which needed to be made. He wanted to make those changes, he felt they were essential.

  

  Bernard Lewis
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• I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Today
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• it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom

  

  Paul Auster
  • Life
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• I think it's very dangerous for an actor to take shooting too seriously because I think it could really damage you if you do that.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Actors
  • Dangerous
  • Damage