Nathan Lane Quotes
I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
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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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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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'Winner' is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn't hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.
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We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?
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I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service. I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.
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I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
