Alexandra Potter Quotes
...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
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When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
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If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.
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I think a lot of people end up making sequels to movies just because the first one did a lot of business, and I think what people have learned is that it doesn't matter if the first one did a lot of business or that people want to go see another one just to see another one.
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...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.
