Carlos Ghosn Quotes
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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'
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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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.
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Who knew? If the illusion is quite perfect, who is to say it is not real?
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If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.
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There's room for Spike Lee's movies; there's room for Tyler Perry's movies. There's room for classics with an all black cast. There's room for all of it as long as we don't try to make any one piece define us as a race.
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You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
