Christopher Bollen Quotes
There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.
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On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.
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We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction.
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I wish I could have come here this afternoon and say we have all the money. I wish I could have come here today and say that the team will be comfortable based on all the money we have received. But sadly enough I can't because we simply do not have the money we need.
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This office is not going to make that decision about rescheduling this game.
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I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
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In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood. Live-action is secondary to me.
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There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
