Allison DuBois Quotes
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
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The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'
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Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he's super sharp.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to look good. You ever see someone wear something that's crazy and say, 'That's so crazy!' But they look good in it, because they feel good in it - you can just tell.
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I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.
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And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.
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I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.
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With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
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I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.
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Every night before bed, I drop down to the floor and do 20 sit-ups, 5 push-ups and stretching. No matter what the day has been like, I drop and give myself 20 every single night.
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Such crazy things happen on daytime TV; if you were to take a specific scene out of context, it can sound so far-fetched that you start laughing at the material... and that can take you out of watching the performance.
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I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
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She curled up on the pallet and stared into the dark, praying for a peaceful sleep.Prayers didn’t do no good, oui. Antonio chased her all night. (In the book Antonio, her father, beats and sexually abuses her long-term; she eventually kills him)
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I think it's an uphill battle in every field. You hear late-night comedy is hard on women. And then you hear investment banking is hard on women. And tech is hard on women. And then you start digging, and you learn philosophy departments are hard on women!
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Nothing is what rocks dream about.
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Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.
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I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.
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I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!
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You're not going to believe this, but I had a crazy dream last night.
