Bill Jay Quotes
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
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Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
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Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
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There is, with any great artist, a little manic-ness and insanity.
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When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'
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Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
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When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.
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Cologne, Germany: 'Claud & I had a stroll in the centre of town afterwards & had great fun making the Hun men civilians get off the pavement for us .... It does one worlds of good to know how humiliating it must be for the Huns' (9 January 1919)
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
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Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.
