Daniel Bruhl Quotes
I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.
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I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.
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When I was 15 years old, my cousin and I formed a singing group called The Altaires. And, because we became the most popular singing group in the Tri-State area, the rest of the group convinced me I should play the guitar - even though I didn't own one! So what happened was, my stepfather actually made my first electric guitar for me for $23!
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I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.
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I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.
