Illeana Douglas Quotes
It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
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If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
