Tyler Joseph Quotes
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.
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And people are always saying: 'Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a TV series, and then you can do anything you want. Because then you've got the clout.' That had always sounded like a lot of hooey to me, but now I think it's true, unfortunately.
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I've never crossed over to be a big star. I'd like to be in a big $100 million movie, though. 'Cause I was in an 'Austin Powers,' I think I had two lines, and every once in a while, I get a check, a really nice check, for that movie.
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I lived to write, and wrote to live.
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It's hard not to be affected by the live audience.
