Rich Moore Quotes
I loved the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and the Lion and you could kind of see the actors' faces in them. It wasn't an entirely new face sculpted around them. What made those characters so human and appealing to me was seeing those great actors underneath there. They weren't lost behind a bunch of appliances.
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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This bikini made me a success.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
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I love actors.
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I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.
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I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,' I inspected all the wardrobes, sure one had to be a portal to another world. I was also a true believer in faeries, and perhaps still am.
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After World War II, scientific research in the U.S. was well supported. In the 1960s, when I came to America, the sky was the limit, and this conducive atmosphere enabled many of us to pursue esoteric research that resulted in America winning the lion's share of Nobel Prizes.
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The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
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The big deal is not that a computer technician made a mistake, ... The big deal is how the White House reacted to it.
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I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
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Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.
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Something smells fishy and they say it's you, all I know is that you made it with the whole damn crew.
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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Men tend to define themselves by what they do, and so if you're dealing with a character who's trying to figure that out, or multiple characters, then there's something there for guys, too.
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"Big Bang Theory" focuses on main characters who in other shows would only be auxiliary players hewing to stereotype: The gawky nerd who lives next door and says oddball things.
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The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.
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Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
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I loved the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and the Lion and you could kind of see the actors' faces in them. It wasn't an entirely new face sculpted around them. What made those characters so human and appealing to me was seeing those great actors underneath there. They weren't lost behind a bunch of appliances.
