Nathan Englander Quotes
I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
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I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
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I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.
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With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.
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My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.
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I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.
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I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs.
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No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.
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I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.
