Taylor Hackford Quotes
It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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I love to write.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
