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'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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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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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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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 always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
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Any woman's right to self-identify is a personal freedom I fight for, and those women who claim trans women are not women are perpetuators of gender-based oppression, and all feminists should be upset and moved to action against this.
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Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.
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I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, 'You start something and you finish it', and that stuck with me. I'm persistent.
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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.
