Cameron Mackintosh Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I was an expert horseman.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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This love is silent.
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I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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What musicals need is a new me.
