David Bronstein Quotes
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.
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I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
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Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
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In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.
