Reid Scott (Reid Scott Weiner) Quotes
Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
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I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
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With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck.
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I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
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Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.
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The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.
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I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.
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Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.
