Tony Kushner Quotes

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

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• Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

  

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• I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.

  

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• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

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• My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

  

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• Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

  

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• I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

  

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• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

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• I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

  

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• I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great.

  

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• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

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• I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

  

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• I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

  

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• I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.

  

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• No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that.

  

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• Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

  

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• Wonder admiratio astonishment, marvel is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.

  

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• The 'Hey now's' are delivered as people pass me. As I just get near ear range, I hear, 'Hey now!' and that's very funny.

  

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• A lot of groups, they get put together. But we don't even think of each other as a group. I don't think I'm in a group with two other guys, where I don't know their moms and their grandmas, their aunties, and I don't know where they came from. This is my immediate family. These are the only people I know. That's why we be around each other so much.

  

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• Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul

  

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• I don't want people to get the impression that I got money and now I'm cocky, because I'm not. I'm just a little overly confident.

  

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• God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

  

  Tony Kushner
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