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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It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.
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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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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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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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With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.
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I believe that you will not get what you want unless you ask for it.
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There's not a single shred of evidence for the multiverse. If, in order to explain this universe, you need a theory that invents an infinite number of parallel universes - that's not a very good theory.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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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.
