Vincent Cassel Quotes
People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.
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I am responsible. Yes, I have chosen to be single.
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People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.
