Sammy Cahn Quotes
The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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What I've appreciated about the 'Bond' films is there's always been a subtle social relevance to them. They've always commented on the times.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
