Malin Akerman Quotes
I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.
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Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
