Sylvia Sidney Quotes
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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Film has to describe and show.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
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Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.
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I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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I think, because of my background, which is slightly more exotic than the average British actor, I think, I sort of occupied this little niche quite early on of playing the foreign guy. It started way back at drama school, I played an Eastern European heavy, I played the Russian mobster. And I have done all those different ethnic roles, and I think it's partly because of my look, I think I've got an adaptable sort of nondescript ethnicity, which you can't quite pin down, but it's enough to kind of get a flavor of something.
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When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.
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The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
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Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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If somebody comes up and they're African American as Mike is, and they're extremely talented as Mike is, they say, "Oh, yeah, he's the next ..." I think that it points to disparity.
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Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!
