Alice Hoffman Quotes
I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.
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There is nothing like this extended family that is Fleetwood Mac. And I think you have to say, for all the perceived and real dysfunction that there has been, underneath that, there is and always has been a great deal of love. And that keeps pulling us back together.
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Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.
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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
