David Hayter Quotes
Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression. You are never the master of the story, just a part of it. But writing and directing give you the power of the gods.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.
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Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
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I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.
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Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.
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We're playing upside-down baseball. But that's been our story. There's always somebody doing something he's not accustomed to doing.
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All was in God's plan, and he had to accept even as he didn't understand.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression. You are never the master of the story, just a part of it. But writing and directing give you the power of the gods.
