Gerard Depardieu Quotes
In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.
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The only power you have is the word no.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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Hawaii is absolutely beautiful.
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Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
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Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.
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I don't focus on the scale. I focus on doing my job. The team staff and the program I've been working on, they've been touching on that, but I don't focus on the scale.
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You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks.
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I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.
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Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.
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I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.
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In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.
