Eli Siegel Quotes
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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It was an honour to be a part of that series. I still get fan mail every day for that show; a big portion of my fan base is from 'Gilmore Girls.'
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My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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'Hey, you’re getting to be almost worth how much it costs to feed you.''Good thing, ’cause I got no plan to eat less.'
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Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.
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Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.
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I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.
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This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.
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Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.
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Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.
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But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.
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As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.
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Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.
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The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.
