Alfred Molina Quotes
Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.
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Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
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Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives.
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Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.
