Vincent Cassel Quotes
I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I think it was my first time realizing that there was something besides popcorn movies.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I have three closets in my bedroom.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
