Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
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There's room for Spike Lee's movies; there's room for Tyler Perry's movies. There's room for classics with an all black cast. There's room for all of it as long as we don't try to make any one piece define us as a race.
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The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.
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I think my husband and dad were both very happy that I had a baby boy, to get some testosterone in the family, because there are a lot of girls. It's not a perfect family, but it's a strong family. The nice thing is how the different ages interact.
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We need to move back toward a free market.
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When I was young and didn't know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.
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Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
