Wentworth Miller Quotes
I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
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I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
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When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as to where my career began - I look to the first book that I ever wrote.
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No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.
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The thing that's very puzzling to somebody who's been in Pakistan repeatedly since 1983 is lots of people live in compounds with high walls in Pakistan. I mean, that's so completely routine. In fact, you know, it would be un-routine to have the reverse.
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The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.
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People that have integrity violations should be fired, not coached. How many integrity violations does it take to ruin the reputation of your company? Just one. You don't coach integrity violations. You fire them.
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Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
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The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.
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Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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It feels great. Last year was my first year, so this year I'm just trying to do my best.
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I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.
