Aaron Johnson Quotes
I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.
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I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.
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If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.
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I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
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I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.
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I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
