Alonso Duralde Quotes
Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
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Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.
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When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days.
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It’s been a dream to work with Netflix because they don’t have any pressure from advertisers.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.
