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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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 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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Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.
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The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
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Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.
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Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it.
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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.
