Lasse Hallstrom Quotes
I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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You've got to change with the public's taste.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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'Fast and Furious' is the only franchise that I've directed that I did not create from scratch. So it definitely was an eye-opening experience for me coming to that world. I had to be respectful of the roles that had been established by the filmmakers before me, and I was cool with that.
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Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.
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You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.