Michel Legrand Quotes
My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.Michel Legrand
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
Yoenis Cespedes -
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
Irrfan Khan
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No person is just one particular emotion.
Octavia Spencer -
My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
Tate Donovan -
I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
Pamela Anderson -
I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.
J. K. Simmons -
There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
Haley Bennett -
My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.
Dan Pink
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You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
Eddie Cahill -
It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'
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I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.
Lee Kuan Yew -
The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'
Bill Hader -
I can't even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.
Chadwick Boseman
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I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.
Alfie Allen -
I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people.
David Milch -
Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.
Nicole Kidman -
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
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I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn't. I wish I could've just let it slide and not cared about it.
Emeraude Toubia -
My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.
Michel Legrand