Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes
Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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I've gone out with a couple girls in L.A. that I met on Tinder, like on real dates. It's hard to meet people.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
