Claude Lelouch Quotes
I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.
Quotes to Explore
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.
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I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
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Acting's boring.
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It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
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I don't add any deliberate nuances to the way I sing. I've seen so much and been all over the world, but I'm glued to my roots, and that comes across.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.
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I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.
