Quentin Tarantino Quotes
My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
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I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.
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India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, administered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment, to address drinking problems, adhering to a centuries-old idea of these problems being a moral disorder rather than a health condition.
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In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.
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Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.
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My sister has been there for me through everything.
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Hugh Grant has that magic in real life, so when he's saying these lines, 'It's always been you,' it's just devastating.
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My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.
