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 love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
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When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.
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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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Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.
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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.