Bob Goff Quotes
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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We all have different things that make us strong and weak, but if we communicate and we really open ourselves and open our hearts, you're going to be amazed by the things that you can learn.
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
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China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
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In New York the other day, there was a pro-Martha Stewart rally. Only four people showed up ... and three of them were made out of crepe paper!
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To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.
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Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
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If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.
