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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The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.
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I don't think anyone could play me. It would have to be me.
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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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Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
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I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
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When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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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.
