Anthony Lane Quotes
We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
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War is not civilized.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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Oops, I did it again, didn't I? My shit's harder to figure out than what Britney's tit size is.
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See you, my dear doctor, me, I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
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Ergo domine...credimus te esse aliquid quo nihil maius cogitari possit.
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Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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About 99 percent of genes in humans have counterparts in the mouse. Eighty percent have identical, one-to-one counterparts.
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We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
