Amy Adams Quotes
It's always challenging when you're shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most challenging thing.
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
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I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.
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When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.
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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
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Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.
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I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.
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I did four movies where I gained, like, fifty pounds. I had curly hair, and I had all of this facial hair. I had put on all this weight for these movies, and I did four or five of them back-to-back. Then I cut the weight and I got fit again. I cut my beard and I took away the mustache, and people were like, 'What are you doing?'
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Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
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I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
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The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
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His petty syllabi, the sounds that stick, Inevitably modulating, in the blood. And war for war, each has its gallant kind. How simply the fictive hero becomes the real; How gladly with proper words the solider dies, If he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech.
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I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere
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We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
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Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
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The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal.
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A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
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It's always challenging when you're shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most challenging thing.
