Jackie Chan Quotes
I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
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I feel like every day I discover new actors and new filmmakers and different genres, and it's just so cool.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.
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If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.
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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
