Catherine McCormack Quotes
I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
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All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
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I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.
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We do not want to alienate supporters.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
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I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.
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I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.
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You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
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What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.
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I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
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If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.
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I think there were a few things that really interested me. One was that I didn't know a lot about hooligan culture. I'd heard of football violence but I didn't quite understand how intense it really is, how organized it is, and more importantly, how these people aren't necessarily criminals or thugs in their daily life. They almost have this sort of double life. They're people with families and some of them have relatively good jobs. That fascinated me. And also the opportunity of being able to take a character from that kind of relatively innocent place to essentially making him a hooligan was very attractive to me. To explore a darker side of humanity that I'd not really explored in film before just as an actor was an interesting challenge.
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Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
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When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.
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I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.
