Leila Josefowicz Quotes
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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The only pressure, as an actor, is to step into Eric Carter's shoes and make him as fully and as complex and as flawed and as human as I could.
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His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
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Having the gastric sleeve procedure and losing 120 pounds, it was a huge difference in how I look in such a short amount of time. It really garnered all the attention.
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Only you can allow yourself to be angry.
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It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
