Ben Lerner Quotes
I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.
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I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.
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On the set I never know what day of the week it is.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.
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Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
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Broadway is amazing because you're performing for such an intimate group of people. You're living in the moment and whatever happens happens, and you go on. You can't say cut and redo it, you have to be on the whole time.
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So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?
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Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people and circumstances around you.
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I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
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To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.
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I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it's almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it.
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Si me olvidase de lo que no he sido, me olvidaría de mí.
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Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
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You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.
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I've said that I would play anything to do with 'Star Wars.' But really, deep down, I would love to come back as Darth Maul - that's what I want to do. I would go crazy, go mental, lock myself in a cabin, you know. Do the whole 'method' for two or three months, spear-fishing and stuff, just to play the character again.
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I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.
