Patrick Demarchelier Quotes
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
 
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	A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.   
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	Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.   
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	Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world, and hence, understanding the global perspective is a must. Cinema Beyond Boundaries would get the viewers and the filmmakers together and would help us in serving them with good quality cinema.   
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	If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.   
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	I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.   
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	Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.   
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	This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.   
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	What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'   
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	As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.   
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	There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.   
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	I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.   
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	Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.   
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	The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'   
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	That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.   
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	My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.   
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	I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.   
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	You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.   
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	A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.   
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	When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.   
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	Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.   
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	Our job in gospel is not going away. It's a sustainable genre. It sells - without question.   
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	I'm committed to working with teachers.   
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	Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.   
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	Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					