Xavier Samuel Quotes
Acting is like sex, it’s possible if your partner is bad, but it’s better if they’re good.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
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I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.
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I feel like I'm way too young to wear such heavy makeup all the time. It's just bad for your skin, but I'm always doing photo shoots or red carpets and events, so I obviously want to look good.
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Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
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I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.
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It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully.
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Acting is like sex, it’s possible if your partner is bad, but it’s better if they’re good.
