Larry Hovis Quotes
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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Everyone is doing forensics.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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I actually love doing comedy!
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.
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Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.
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Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers.
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Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking questions: 'Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?' You're being Sherlock Holmes.
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I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
