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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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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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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I've gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don't work in other hands. It's tricky. But any movie is tricky. It's impossible to say, 'This is what you do in any situation.'
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn't the only video service, but I think it's the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that's a completely different kind of content.
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That's why I fell in love with country music: it made me feel something.
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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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.
