Michael Wolf Quotes
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
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Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.
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I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.
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Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."
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At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
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I reckon you have to put a presence in front of your opponent - a bit of confidence and attitude - and then you can change what their next move may be.
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
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Man is something that is to be surpassed.
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Everybody is promoting something.
