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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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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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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As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
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It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.
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It's easier to be more vulnerable in a smaller environment. It's hard to expect your actors to be able to open up in that way and stay with the level of focus needed when there's so many people on stage.
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I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.
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The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
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I love working with actors. I do.
