Monica Vitti Quotes
Despite what people say about my major film roles, I'm not a dull or monotonous woman searching for self-identity.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
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Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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Putting a face on a gay is important. We are just people.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
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I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people.
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My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.
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Despite what people say about my major film roles, I'm not a dull or monotonous woman searching for self-identity.
