P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
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It can hardly be said that Greenaway is unaware of his demoniac cleverness, but he unearths the nuggets buried in his work in a spirit of generosity. They are not so much possessions to be admired as gifts to be shared.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.
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Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than obtained in Norfolk, Virginia, plus the fact she just didn't like the lowland-lying climate there.
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'She loves this newt-nuzzling blister.'
