Carre Otis Quotes
I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.
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I like working on my birthday, so I always do.
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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
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You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
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You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.
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This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
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In high school, we would do improv. Me and my boy were, like, the stars of the class.
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Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.
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I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.
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I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.
