Michael Potts Quotes
My acting teacher, Earle Gister. He had a genius for knowing exactly where every one of us were in our development as actors. He always knew precisely what to say or suggest to unlock a moment. He somehow always made it seem like it was our idea. I call him 'The Invisible Hand.'
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
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I write songs simply because I get a kick out of making them exist. I'm also sort of addicted to the recording studio, and making albums is my idea of fun.
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I've always had an incredible interest in the villains, which are a lot more fun to play.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.
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My acting teacher, Earle Gister. He had a genius for knowing exactly where every one of us were in our development as actors. He always knew precisely what to say or suggest to unlock a moment. He somehow always made it seem like it was our idea. I call him 'The Invisible Hand.'
