Will Ferrell Quotes
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
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The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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Sunlight is painting.
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I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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I want to be a well-rounded, versatile performer.
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You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
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The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used to eradicate the color line; then its days would indeed be numbered.
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There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.
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Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.
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You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.
