Noah Emmerich Quotes

I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.

Noah Emmerich

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• As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

  

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• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

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• There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

  

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• If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.

  

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• I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

  

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• It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

  

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• One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.

  

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• In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.

  

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• This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

  

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• Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

  

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• My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed.

  

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• How can a mother's heart feel cold or wearyKnowing her dearer self safe, sheltered, warm?How can she feel her road too dark or dreary,Who knows her treasure sheltered from the storm?How can she sin? Our hearts may be unheeding,Our God forgot, our holy saints defied;But can a mother hear her dead child pleading,And thrust those little angel hands aside?

  

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• Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

  

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• Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

  

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• I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.

  

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• Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

  

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• I think that's important - that transgender individuals are just like everyone else. We have our interests, our hobbies, our things we like to do. And people have to understand that.

  

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• Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.

  

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• Go slow. If you have the time for eight countries, take five. If you're rushed to take five, take three.

  

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• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

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• I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.

  

  Noah Emmerich
  • War
  • Movie
  • Action