Ray Fisher Quotes
I auditioned specifically for Cyborg, but at the time, they were using a code name for the character... I think it was Oscar.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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I think higher education is over-regulated.
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Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.
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You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.
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I think I may not be able to retire.
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We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.
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I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.
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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
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I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.
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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
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It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
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I knew my time was going to come, I just had to be ready when it came. It does say something for the coaches and what they think of me.
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Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.
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Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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I auditioned specifically for Cyborg, but at the time, they were using a code name for the character... I think it was Oscar.
