Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I've used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn't have time to go shopping or pick up an outfit for a photo shoot. I think you should dress yourself, have fun with it - it's only clothes.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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It's really important that folks be able to speak out.
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Give peace a chance.
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We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.
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'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him.'Do I know who?''Adam. In the Bible.'Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.
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On Bush 'Free Trade' policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.
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The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
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When I do think, 'Man a fucking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars' worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
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A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.
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Sometimes, and I hate to say it, you do feel things are asked for in the most ludicrously unrealistic fashion. The time you are expected to make things in, and the money you are expected to make them for - that is the death of creativity. Just because some things can be made very cheaply does not mean everything can be.
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I just like good stories. I like really interesting scripts, I love really great filmmakers. And I'm open to all genres and all stories. But, there's certain ones that attract me, and I don't really sort of look at what I think is going to be successful, I look at more so, you know, is this what I want to do regardless of what everybody else thinks?
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
