Taissa Farmiga Quotes
It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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Funny is an attitude.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Before a show, I usually give myself two-and-a-half hours to get ready. I prepare my shoes first. New ballet pumps can sound like tap shoes. You have to take the noise out of them by hitting them against stone. It takes half an hour to do each pair, and I can go through three pairs in one night.
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I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.
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With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the world a better place.
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Every time I call my baby and ask to get a date, my boss says, no dice son, you gotta work late.
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It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.
