Bradford Cox Quotes
I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.
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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.
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We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.
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Eminem is more like a friend. And I'm also a fan on Eminem.
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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
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I went to school in the 1970s, and there was a lot of physical theater in those days.
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I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.
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When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.
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I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?
