Bernie Brillstein Quotes
Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the first time, why make it again? The only reason this is happening is it has become a safer way for the Studios.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
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In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.
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Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film.
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Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the first time, why make it again? The only reason this is happening is it has become a safer way for the Studios.
