Cary Elwes (Ivan Simon Cary Elwes) Quotes
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.
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In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
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If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
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Beauty is a whore.
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Each for himself is still the ruleWe learn it when we go to school-The devil take the hindmost, O!
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I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.
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I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.
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I want to be the jazz singer.
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Unless you're making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI.
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Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.
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My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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We 'conserve' nothing; neither do we want to return to any past periods; we are not by any means 'liberal'; we do not work for 'progress'; we do not need to plug up our ears against the sirens who in the market place sing of the future: their song about 'equal rights,' 'a free society,' 'no more masters and no servants' has no allure for us.
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If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
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We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
