Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Quotes
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I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
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I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
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Money has never been my drive. I have never seen the shortage of money in my life, so for me, I don't want to buy a silk pillow or a private jet... My drive is to achieve more than what my grandfather achieved; my drive is to make a name for myself, get rid of this 'star son' tag that has been attached to me.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.
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I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
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With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
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Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.
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In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
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I'm sick of making bloody history.
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What are you waiting for in order to give up?
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It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.
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I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.
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Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
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Sanctuaries are magical places - dare I say holy?
