Harold Pinter Quotes
All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.
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If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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You write these songs which are really dear to you about your family or friends, loved ones, and then you get this call, and they say, 'It's perfect for two vampires making out in the back of a car.' It's some random TV show, and so I say, 'Oh, yeah, perfect - that's what I meant it for.'
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
