Swoosie Kurtz Quotes
The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.
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I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
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Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.
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There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
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I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
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Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.
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I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
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I am always nervous when I'm auditioning for a part I really want.
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All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
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I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.
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The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.
