Todd Solondz Quotes
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.
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I love actors.
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My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
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Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.
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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.
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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
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I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.
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I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.
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I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.
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Some people are kind of themselves, and some people are straight-up actors that can meld into a lot of different parts.
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Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.
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I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.
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Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
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Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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I love working with actors. I do.
