David Dayan Fisher Quotes
As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
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I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.
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I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.
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They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.
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My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they have learned that they're just like us... And when you see that they're just like us, the rationale for discrimination melts away.
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I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.
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Government should be a model of inclusion.
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As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.
