Rachel McAdams Quotes
I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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I got to make 'Trishakti' with Arshad Warsi, who was a newcomer at that time. The movie took three years to complete and became dated by the time it was released. The movie did not even get a proper release and bombed at the box office. It was a very bad patch of my life and a big disaster for my career.
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I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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I met Cary Grant once, and I was absolutely star struck. I got his autograph.
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I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?
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There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.
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It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.
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Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
