Tyler Labine Quotes
I've made a career out of playing the id: the guy that says whatever pops into his head.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
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I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I'm working on, it's never going to be an actual book. So until it's close to done, I keep pretty quiet about my next stuff!
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
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I've made a career out of playing the id: the guy that says whatever pops into his head.
