Warren Beatty Quotes
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.
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They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused, polarizing sound bites that put party philosophy before what used to be heralded as the common good. These ideas, more often than not, divide us rather than serve to bind us.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
