Alban Berg Quotes
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
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Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.
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Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.
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Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.
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It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.
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For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.
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The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.
