Ridley Scott Quotes
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
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Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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I don't envy young actors.
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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.
