Cary Elwes (Ivan Simon Cary Elwes) Quotes
When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Bitcoin and the block chain enables a whole new way to incentivize and transact, so change the world with this new tool. Create and build! Surprise us with an idea we have never seen before.
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I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.
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I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
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I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Scandal,' but it's fun to just go into someone's world for eight days and do your thing, and then leave.
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So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different from mine. Then, when you finish a film, you're a different person. I look for that. I look to be impacted, to be transformed, changed by my roles. That's why I do this.
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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 million took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare.
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When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until that moment is only in the pages of the script. And very often, I pull from the life of my actors. I'm always curious about what these characters and these actors are hiding about their lives.
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I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.
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I like lip liners over lipsticks. I have so many of them from so many different brands, so I just pick the color that works.
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On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.
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I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.
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When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with companies from all over the world - but these companies don't share, really, their profits - this is called post-post-colonial.
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The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.
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You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.
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Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job.
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What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.
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When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.
