Alfred Molina Quotes
I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I like to discover new things.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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'American Idol' is a machine. It's a machine that's making a lot of money, that's selling a lot of product. It's 'American Marketing.'
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I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.
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Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.
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And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.
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I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.
