William Faulkner Quotes
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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I think I'm a soulful singer.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
