Iman Quotes
I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.
Quotes to Explore
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
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I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.
