Gary Cole Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
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We just here to do our job.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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Some people think of me as an actor and some as a movie star, so I sort of guess that makes me both. I love making movies, and I love playing on the stage.
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
