Michel Gondry Quotes

I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.

Michel Gondry

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• I like risky stuff.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Want
  • Stuff
  • Just

• The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

  

  Abel Ferrara
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• I love actors.

  

  Cameron Crowe
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• Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

  

  Kevin Kline
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• There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Amazing
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• What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
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  • Sentimental

• The personal stuff for me is the best, ... And this one felt a little raw emotionally. I wanted to capture some stuff, to see if I could get it right. The way it feels to lose a loved one and find a reason to celebrate, oddly enough, as a result of learning who you are.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Learning
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• I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

  

  LL Cool J
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• When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
  • Up
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• Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Famous
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  • Necessary

• I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Help
  • Giving
  • Respect

• As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Different
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• I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that.

  

  Gabriel Ba
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  • Lawyer

• Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.

  

  Fats Domino
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  • Rock

• I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.

  

  Sandra Oh
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  • Actors
  • Difficult

• You can read my stuff; there are not very many quotes. It's more impressionistic.

  

  Michael Finkel
  • Stuff
  • Read
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• When I was in high school, I was always really envious of those girls who seemed to have everything: the perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect boyfriend, perfect life. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that nobody's life is perfect, and that those girls probably had a lot of the same problems I did.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Life
  • School
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• Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Good
  • Important

• I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Actors
  • Stuff
  • Liberated