Becki Newton Quotes
I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.
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I need to find the right guy and the right family. The day I find something worth my while, I will get married and have kids, too.
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What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
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Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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Simply surviving in this business is a feat.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
