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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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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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
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Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.
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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
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In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.
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Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.
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We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
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In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.
