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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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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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.
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My mother had a master's degree and had been a schoolteacher before she started having kids at 30. But my father's family were landowners, farmer-merchants. Moneymaking was extremely important, like one of those semi-rapacious families in Lillian Hellman, where they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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'She loves this newt-nuzzling blister.'
