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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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
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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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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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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’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.
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I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.
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I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.
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When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here.
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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.
